How Do You Work?

Uncertainty in great as well as in small things produces fear. Faith produces unwavering confidence. We are to do every small thing in faith as if it were something great, and every great thing as if it were something small, for God is just as exact as He is faithful.

Every man has enough to do with what God wants him to do, and everyone can do what God wants him to do—for he has sufficient time for it, but never a second to waste. He who does not want to do what he is supposed to do because he dreams about doing what he cannot do—he is not fit to do what he can do. He who is faithful in small things has no time to dream about great things, and he who is faithful in great things is precise in small things. He knows that great things are made up of small things, and that the perfection of the whole depends on the precision of its parts.

Never dream about great things, for whatever you might dream about as being something great is really nothing. The greatest thing is to carry out God’s commandments in the present moment. There is nothing greater.

He who is too great to do the small things is always too small to do the great things. He who is unfaithful in little things will never be entrusted with great things.

Your mind is too hasty if you do not have sufficient time; it has become dull if you have too much time. If you think you are not accomplishing enough, you are vainly dreaming about something greater than doing God’s will in the present moment. He who rests in God discovers that time and work is measured out very carefully by Him. He who is hasty in his mind desires to do many things at once. He who rests in God carries out the simple task God sets before him with divine tranquility and precision. He who follows God’s plan and His workings in his life accomplishes the most and performs the best work. By faithfully doing God’s will in the present moment, you will immediately become exceedingly rich in the works of God.

Do not blindly stare at the end result that is before your inner eye, for then you will not be able to see the demands of the present moment lying at hand. Fulfill God’s will in the present moment, and you will be amazed at the result when God reveals it—for your eye cannot measure God’s goal with your life.

A restless bustling about when God’s will is to be done is only a sign of unbelief. He who believes in God rests in each work without inner unrest.

Forget time; forget the past and dream not about the future; enter into the eternal present before God’s face. There is a fullness of time for every work. There God will reveal to you what you are to do at the right time and the right place, for He knows the right time and the right place. Therefore work in complete harmony with Him.

He who is hasty is like the one who is too late, because both do their works outside of God’s time.

He who has wholeheartedly chosen Jesus as Lord does not have time for anything but to do His will. God’s grace is sufficient for the smallest details, and through them for the great whole.