YOUNG or old we all should be working for the Lord. But perhaps my little reader who loves the Lord asks, How am I to labor for Christ? If you have a real desire I am sure He will show you the way. You have early learned the love of Jesus, and can say, “The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me,” and you love Him because He first loved you. Do not be ashamed of other people knowing that you are saved. You can never be a laborer if you are ashamed.
I heard lately of a little girl who was brought to know Jesus when she was twelve years old; she loved Him, and could not help confessing His name. She was the only one in her family who knew God; all the others laughed at her.
For five years God kept this little laborer working humbly and quietly in the harvest-field, and then He called her to Himself. As she lay dying she said to the one who had first shown her the way of salvation, “I know mamma will be saved some day, for I have asked the Lord about it, and am sure He will hear, but I shall not live to see it.”
And she was right. Her earnest appeals to her mother to come to Jesus, and her quiet, consistent life, have been blessed, and this mother has now the same bright hope in Christ that her child had. The time for working for Christ will soon be over. He is coming quickly, and His reward is with Him, to “give every man according as his work shall be.” May we who know Him, and have eternal life, be kept living for Him and serving Him!
G. A. A.