Give me an extra half-yard, Willie; your master is not in, and nobody will ever know anything about “it,” said a customer to a lad who was selling her some cloth.
The lad looked at the woman, and respectfully, but firmly replied, “My Master is always in, and He knows everything.”
The woman quite ashamed, shrunk away, muttering something about Willie’s “religion.”
But that was a noble answer of Willie’s, and it was perfectly true. Willie was a believer, and he had learned to do his work behind the counter in the presence of His Master, Jesus Christ, and He was “always in.”
It would be a great blessing to all the Lord’s saved ones, if they would thus seek to live and serve as in the very presence of the Lord, conscious that His eye is ever looking on. It would be a powerful corrective too, for many little inconsistencies that are apt to occur among the Lord’s people.
Our Master is always in; His back is never turned.
My dear young believer, seek to live and walk in the daily consciousness of this. At school, at home, in the office and in the work-room, seek to remember that “the Master is always in.”
It had a wonderful power over the habits and ways of the people of God, when they seek to walk and live as under the eye of the Lord, and it preserves them, too, from falling into the crooked ways of the world, arid doing such things as bring dishonor on that worthy Name by which they are called.
ML 12/01/1940