Service for Christ, Personal – Charles Spurgeon

OUR prayer should be, “Show me what you would have me to do”—have me to do in particular; not what is generally right, but what is particularly right for me to do. My servant might, perhaps, think it a very proper thing for her to arrange my papers for me in my study, but I should feel but a very slender amount of gratitude to her. If, however, she will have a cup of coffee ready for me early in the morning, when I have to go out to a distant country town to preach, I shall be much more likely to appreciate her services. So, some friends think, “How I could get on if I were in such and such a position, if I were made a deacon, if I were elevated to such a post.” Go your way, and work as your Master would have you. You will do better where he puts you than you will do where you put yourself. You are no servant, indeed, at all, when you do pick and choose your service, for the very spirit, the very essence of service consists in saying, “Not my will, but your be done. I wait for orders from the throne: teach me what you would have me to do.”