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March 2018
To Every Man His Work
F. B. Meyer
church.
The Lord Jesus is Himself the great Worker.
He came to finish the work which His Father gave
Him to do. Mark fitly describes Him during His
earthly career as the swift and incessant worker,
whose days were crowded with incident from early
dawn far on into the night. “I must work the works of
Him that sent Me, while it is day...” (John 9:4).
It is a great mistake to suppose that His work
has ceased. The Gospels tell us only of what He
began to do and teach. But the Book of the Acts of the
Apostles, which might be better called the Book of
the Acts of the living and ascended Lord, takes up the
wondrous story and tells us of what He continued to
do and teach after He had passed through the heavens
to the right hand of God. He is still the great Worker
throughout all the ages, both in the universe and in the
Who amongst the readers of these lines does
not long to be as useful as possible in this brief life, to
fulfil all the possibilities of usefulness, and to
apprehend that for which Christ has apprehended
him? But this can never be until all the powers of
nature which Christ has redeemed, are placed
absolutely at His disposal with this prayer, “Do with
me, in me, to me, by me, as you will; only make as
much of me as can be made on this side of the gates of
pearl. Work out Your own ideal. Fulfill in me all the
good pleasure of Your will. Perfect that which
concerns me.”
The maker of the organ can best develop the
sweet and migh ty tones which sleep within its
compass. The inventor of an ingenious machine can
best unfold its varied appliances. And surely it stands
to reason that He who knows what is in us can best
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O F I N T E G
The Christian life is sure to manifest itself in
holy activity as certainly as the life of a plant
manifests itself in flower and fruit. It is perfectly true
to speak of such activities as work “to every man his
work” (Mark 13:34). But to describe them as fruit
brings out another shade of meaning and indicates
our entire dependence for all successful work on our
living connection with our glorious Lord.
But is it not true that the ascended Lord requires
organs and instruments for the expression and
working out of His mighty thoughts and purposes?
He is the Head of the body, the church, and He needs
members as the instruments through which He may
convey His purposes of grace and power towards the
world. As of old He passed the blessings that
throbbed in His heart through the hands, and lips, and
presence of His mortal body, so now He must employ
His own beloved ones to be His hands, His lips, His
feet, His body by which men may receive healing
virtue. Paul was therefore consistent with the
deepest truth, when he declared particularly what
things “God had wrought” among the Gentiles by his
ministry (Acts 15:12). And we shall work effectively
when we understand that we are not required to
originate or execute work for Christ so much as to
work out His schemes in His own strength.
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