May 18

A ministry for all

“Behold I send you forth” (Luke 10:3).
“Instantly serving God day and night” (Acts 26:7).

The disciples did not stop to organize themselves into Conferences or Councils, into Synods or General Assemblies. Each man spoke the word which the Holy Spirit gave to him. Peter talks to Cornelius, and his assembled kinsfolk, until the Spirit descends upon them, and they are converted and baptized. Paul preaches to the Philippian jailer and condenses the core of the Gospel into a single sentence. Philip overtakes a titled foreigner in his chariot by the roadside, and a “Bible reading” is extemporized on the spot. That was preaching—truth teaching—in its most elementary form. Aquila and Priscilla become expounders of the new Gospel, with the gifted Apollos for their pupil.


Down at Joppa, industrious Dorcas takes to preaching also, but womanlike she employs her needle as her instrument. Her actions speak louder than words. And so the hive is busy. Everyone who has a message delivers it; everyone who can heal a sick man or mend a crippled limb performs the miracles of love; everyone who has a lamp lets it shine. Their Lord and Master is glorified by their “bearing much fruit.”
—Theodore Cuyler.

The Gospel commands the sinner to come and the Christian to go.
—D. L. Moody.

To talk with God no breath is lost;
Talk on.
To walk with God no strength is lost;
Walk on.
To toil with God no time is lost;
Toil on.
Little is much, if God is in it;
Man’s busiest day not worth God’s minute.
Much is little everywhere
If God the business doth not share.
So work with God, then nothing’s lost;
Who works with Him does well and most.

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