O dreamer of vain dreams',

Back to THOUGHTS FOR THE QUIET HOUR

---

"Be content with such things as you have." Heb. 13:5

"My own vineyard I have neglected." Song 1:6

Let us accept the allotments of Divine Providence—
our varied spheres in life—at the hands of Him who 
fixes the bounds of our habitation. 

How many there are who have a strange, perverse 
satisfaction in looking out from their window, with 
longing eyes, on one or other of the varied modern 
shapes which Naboth's vineyard assumes! Their 
soliloquy is—'Were it mine, what a vintage I would 
have there! What oil and wine I would have from 
these grapes and olive trees; and what a prudent
and bountiful use I would make of them, which 
their present possessor never does!'

God says to such—'No, O dreamer of vain dreams, 
remain no longer gazing through a false and distorted 
medium. Envy no longer your neighbour's choicer territory. 
Go cheerfully down to your own assigned, though more 
restricted, garden-plot. It may have neither vines nor 
olives. It may be devoid of floral wealth. It may be 
possessed of nothing but the commonest plants. 
But there is your place! It may be "little among the 
thousands of Judah." It is that, nevertheless, which I 
have staked and fenced out for you. I have not made 
you keeper of others' vineyards; see that your own 
vineyard you do keep. You can serve Me and glorify Me 
with the one entrusted talent, as well as with the ten. 
On the Great Day there will be as ample a recognition 
of faithfulness over the few things as over the many
things.' 

By Him the mite is accepted; and the heart—when
there is no mite to give.

---

Back to THOUGHTS FOR THE QUIET HOUR