Destiny Is Built One Day At a Time

“One good deed is worth more than a thousand brilliant theories.” – C.H. Spurgeon

As a young boy, I remember reading a short story about a man who was so convinced that he had a grand destiny awaiting him that he turned down every smaller opportunity that was offered him along the way. Eventually, he grew old and realized that he hadn’t accomplished a single thing. Instead, he had wasted his life while waiting for his “ship to come in”, but apparently it never left port.

Charles Spurgeon wrote pointedly and eloquently on this topic, and here are a few excerpts…

“Let us not wait for large opportunities or for a different kind of work, but just do the things we ‘find to do’ day by day.”

“We have no other time in which to live. The past is gone; the future has not arrived; we will never have any time but now. So do not wait until your experience has ripened into maturity before you attempt to serve God.”

“Do it promptly; do not fritter away your life in thinking of what you intend to do tomorrow as if that could repay today’s laziness.”

“No one ever served God by doing things tomorrow. If we honor Christ and are blessed, it is by the things that we do today.”

“Whatever you do for Christ, throw your whole soul into it. Do not give Christ a little halfhearted labor, done as a matter of course every now and then; but when you serve Him, do it with heart and soul and strength.”

Now, let’s allow God to have the last word on this subject…

“And He said to them, ‘Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?’” Luke 2:49 (NKJV)

“Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men, because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as your reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” Colossians 3:23-24 (BSB)

- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President