June 5

Live so as to be missed

“I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually” (2 Kings 4:9).
“There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods” (Dan. 5:11).

Brethren, we should live so as to be missed—missed both in the church and in the world—when we are removed. Oh, how rapidly is the time hastening on! We should live in such a manner as that, if we were called hence, our dear brethren and sisters might feel our loss, and from their innermost souls exclaim, “Oh, that such an one were in our midst again!” We ought to be missed even by the world. Worldly persons should be constrained to say of us, “If ever there was a Christian upon earth, that man was one.”
—George Müller.

There is no glory halo round his devoted head,
No luster marks the sacred paths in which his footsteps tread.
Yet holiness is graven upon his thoughtful brow
And all his steps are ordered in the light of Heaven e’en now.

He often is peculiar and seldom understood,
And yet his power is felt by both the evil and the good,
For he lives in touch with Heaven, a life of faith and prayer,
His sympathies, his hopes, his joys, his all is centered there.

His body is God’s temple, his heart the Master’s shrine.
He lives, and thinks, and speaks, and acts, as moved by power divine.
His is the calm of Heaven, the faith that can be still,
For God revealeth unto such the secrets of His will.

He is a chosen servant among God’s many sons;
He bears His sayings on his lips and on His errands runs.
No human frown he feareth, no earthly praise he seeks,
But in the dignity of Heaven his burning message speaks.

I’ve found him in the workshop and in the busy street,
The plainest, simplest, humblest man that one could wish to meet.
I’ve treasured up his sayings and marked his faithful ways
And oft to follow in his steps my longing spirit prays.

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