| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 7 |
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When they get home at last, and all the harvest of their lives has been gathered in, good people will experience two great surprises. They will be surprised to find that certain things which they have done, which they regarded as great things, beautiful and good and largely useful, were really of very small account, received but slight commendation of God, and left but small blessing in the world. But they will be surprised, on the other hand, at the great beauty and the rare value of other things which they have done, which they had not considered as of any importance, – things, perhaps, they do not even remember doing, they were done with so little thought that they could be of any worth.
It is a law of God’s kingdom that what we do with thought of self lacks one of the finest elements of moral quality. Consciousness of being beautiful mars the beauty. What we do, intending that it shall be fine and winsome, is of far less worth in God’s sight, than what we do when our left hand does not know what our right hand is doing.
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