The Lord may let others be honored and put forward and keep you hidden in obscurity, because He wants to produce some choice fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade. He may let others be great, but keep you small. He may let others do a work for Him and get the credit for it, but He will make you work and toil on without knowing how much you are doing, and then to make your work still more precious He may let others get credit for the work which you have done and thus make your reward ten times greater when Jesus comes.
When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught and you smile inwardly, glorying in the insult or the oversight, because you are thereby counted worthy to suffer with Christ — that is victory!
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your taste offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you take it all in patient, loving silence — that is victory!
When you are content with any food, any raiment, any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will of God—that is victory!
Adapted from “Others May ...
You Cannot”