A great preacher closed his sermon with an earnest Gospel appeal. Among the score of many who responded was a woman of wealth and social distinction. She asked permission to speak a few words of testimony to the congregation.
“I want you to know,” she said, “just why I came forward tonight. I stand here because of the influence of a little woman who sits before me. Her fingers are rough with toil; the hard work of many years has stooped her low, she is just a poor obscure washer-woman, who has served in my home for many years. I have never known her to be impatient, speak an unkind word, or do a dishonorable deed. I know of countless little acts of unselfish love that adorn her life. Shamefacedly, let me say that I have openly sneered at her faith and laughed at her fidelity to God. The sweet magnetism of her life has led me to Christ. I covet the thing that has made her life so beautiful.”
At the request of the Pastor, the little woman was led forward, her eyes streaming with glad tears and such a shining face as one seldom sees on this earth. “Let me introduce you,” said he, “to the real preacher of the evening,” and the great audience rose in silent, though not tearless, respect.
Oh, ye obscure toilers of the world, ye patient “doers of the Word,” think not that what you do is in vain; ye shall reap if ye faint not.
I Corinthians 15:10 “But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.”
Any work we do for Christ in word or example, is not in vain. Trust by faith, that your testimony and the prayers that accompany your “Christian lifestyle”, will bear fruit…in His time.
II Thessalonians 3:13 “But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.”
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