Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well. Ecclesiastes 11:6
“My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry… The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.”
George Muller in George Muller and His Witness to a Prayer Hearing God, compiled by Arthur T. Pierson (New York: Baker and Taylor, 1899) 431.
God blessed me with an awesome night at the World Series with five dear brothers in Christ: Gregg Capin, Ken Tan, Paul Bolte, Greg Mauldin, and Calvin Edwards. We enjoyed sweet fellowship.
We talked about many things: family, baseball, work, life, and roles we are playing for Christ in His kingdom. And of course we watched a great fantastic game on a misty Atlanta night.
When I got back to my room at the airport hotel I was wide awake so I did some reading and found this quote. It seemed fitted as we talked about the importance of sowing generously in God’s work.
For Muller, it was his business sow and serve with all his might. That means, he sowed and served with all the resources He could muster. What if you sowed and served with all your might?