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KEEP ABOUT YOUR WORK
This is the resolution of Peace & Happiness Ministry. Our call is from God.
We have a mission and we will accomplish that mission, no matter what, by His grace.
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The Lord has given to every man his work. It is his business to do it and the devil’s business to hinder him if he can. So surely as God has given you a work to do, Satan will try to hinder you.
He may present other things more promising. He may allure you by worldly prospects; he may assault you with slander, torment you with false accusations, set you to work defending your character, employ pious persons to lie about you, editors to assail you, and excellent men to slander you. You may have Pilate and Herod, Annanias and Caiphas all combined against you, and Judas standing by you to sell you for thirty pieces of silver; and you may wonder why all those things come upon you. Can you not see that the whole thing is brought about through the craft of the devil; to draw you off from your work and hinder your obedience to God?
Keep about your work. Do not flinch because the lion roars; do not stop to stone the devil’s dogs; do not fool away your time chasing the devil’s rabbits. Do your work. Let liars lie, let sectarians quarrel, let corporations resolve, let editors publish, let the devil do his worst; but see to it that nothing hinders you from fulfilling the work that God has given you.
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He has not sent you to make money. He has not commanded you to get rich. He has never bidden you defend your character. He has not set you at work to contradict every falsehood which Satan and his servants may start to peddle. If you do those things, you will do nothing else; you will be at work for yourself and not for the Lord.
Keep about your work. Let your aim be as steady as a star. Let the world brawl and hubble. You may be assaulted, wronged, insulted, slandered, wounded, and rejected; you may be abused by force, forsaken by friends, and despised and rejected of men; but see to it with steadfast determination, with un faltering zeal, that you pursue the great purpose of your life and object of your being, untill at last you can say, "I have finished the work which Thou gave me to do."
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