'Your labor is not in vain in the Lord
Your labor is not in vain in the Lord
We must not measure life by any earthly standard.
There are lives which the world crowns as successful — but that God rates as failures.
And there are other lives which some may pity — but, in God's sight, are noble successes.
Earnest Christians bless others truly for Christ — but there may seem to be little result.
Yet we do not know what good may come out of a true work that has at first appeared to fail.
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord ." 1 Corinthians 15:58.
Results may not come immediately, but they will somewhere, sometime.
Outside the mill, a waterwheel turns, and seems to accomplish nothing.
But inside, machinery makes flour to feed the hungry.
Our lives may seem, with all their activities, to produce no result — but who knows what blessings they shall become, what impressions they leave on other lives for eternity?