In Green Pastures
Daily Readings for Every Day in the Year
December 3
Certainty of Reward
We need give ourselves no trouble about the reward of our life. Be it
ours only to do our duty faithfully, sweetly, lovingly, all the days; then God
will see that we do not miss the reward of fidelity. Our Lord suggests that the
righteous will be surprised at the Judgment to learn of the glory and greatness
of the services of love they have rendered to needy ones. Supposing only that
they were showing kindness to the poor, they will learn that they were serving
the King himself. Thus the smallest and obscurest ministry will flash out in
splendid radiancy in the day of final revealing. No true service done in this
world in Christ's name will fail of blessing and reward. Even the acts which
seem to have been of no avail will leave a benediction somewhere. If your kind
word or deed blesses no other, the doing of it will bless your own heart.
Though your effort do no good to the one you meant to help, it may touch
another life. Our wayside seed-sowing is not lost.
December
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