We must never lose sight of the grand fact that we are converted to the service of God. The
outcome of the life which we possess must ever take the form of service to the living and true
God. In our unconverted days we worshiped idols and served various lusts and pleasures. Now,
on the contrary, we worship God in the Spirit, and we are called to serve Him with all our
ransomed powers. We have turned to God and have found in Him our perfect rest and satisfaction.
There is not a single thing we need, for time and eternity, that we cannot find in our most gracious
God and Father. He has treasured up in Christ, the Son of His love, all that can satisfy the desires
of the new life in us. It is our privilege to have Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith, and to be
so rooted and grounded in love as to be able to comprehend with all the saints "what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge," that we may be filled with all the fulness of God (Eph. 3:17-19).

Thus filled, satisfied, and strengthened, we are called to dedicate ourselves, spirit, soul, and body,
to the service of Christ_to be always abounding in the work of the Lord. We should have nothing
else to do in this world. Whatever cannot be done as service to Christ ought not to be done at all.
It is our sweet privilege to do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and to the glory of God.
We sometimes hear people speak of "a secular calling" as contrasted to a "sacred" one. We
question the correctness of such a distinction. Paul served the Lord both in making tents and
planting churches. All that a Christian does ought to be sacred because it is done as service to
God. If this were borne in mind, it would enable us to connect the very simplest duties of daily
life with the Lord Himself, and to bring Him into them in such a way as to impart a holy dignity
and interest to all that we have to do from morning till night. In this way, instead of finding the
duties of our calling a hindrance to our communion with God, we should actually make them an
occasion of waiting on Him for wisdom and grace to discharge them aright, so that His holy name
might be glorified in the most minute details of practical life.

It is most blessed for us to know that our God graciously condescends to connect His name and
His glory with the most commonplace duties that can devolve upon us in our ordinary domestic
life. It is this which imparts dignity, interest, and freshness to every little act, from morning till
night. "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men" (Col. 3:23). Here lies
the precious secret of the whole matter. It is not working for wages, but serving the Lord and
looking to Him to receive the reward of the inheritance.

Oh, that all this were more fully realized among us! What moral elevation it would give to the
entire Christian life! What a triumphant answer it would furnish to the unbeliever! The most
learned arguments are not so convincing as an earnest, devoted, holy, happy, self-sacrificing
Christian life.

(From "Conversion:What Is It?" in Miscellaneous Writings, Vol. 4,.)