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"Each with his assigned task." Mark 13:34

Never let us quarrel at the lowliness of our tasks or
the limitations of our life-ministries. The still pond 
does not complain because it has not the music and 
ripple of the stream or the swell and surge of ocean. 
It is content, in its simple way, to supply the needs 
of the cottage home, or refresh the weary toiler in 
the field, or give drink to the thirsty beggar. 

The violet blushing unseen in the woods does not 
envy the cedar with its evergreen foliage or the oak 
with its giant limbs and mighty shadow. It is content 
to occupy its assigned place, away, it may be, amid 
the loneliness of forest aisles. 

God has given to each of us our positions and appointed 
our tasks—humble as well as conspicuous, lowly as well
as mighty. Little-hearts as well as Great-hearts are 
"ministers of His to do His pleasure."