"Life is so brief that no man can afford to lose a day. It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; we should begin early in the morning, and in the evening we should not withhold our hand; but to win souls is far nobler work, how is it that we so soon withdraw from it? Some are spared to a long evening of green old age; if such be my case, let me use such talents as I still retain, and to the last hour serve my blessed and faithful Lord. By his grace I will die in harness, and lay down my charge only when I lay down my body.” — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
We could endure the drudgery of counting coin upon coin if counting them meant keeping them. In fact, we could do so with a smile on our face and gleam in our eye. We would not punch in late or leave early. We would not take a long lunch. We might, in fact, be willing to fast and go without a lunch in order to get more time to gather up more gold. We would find reserves to endure. We would dig deep within in order to dig more out. We would get up early and stay up late, grabbin' mammon until the clock hit midnight. We would hit that finish line with our chest. We would give it our all because we would believe in the value of what we were doing. We would count the cost because we saw the benefit.
How much more so then should we apply ourselves to our chores for the Lord?
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
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