Galatians 1:15-16 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,… I. A soldier who went to the war took with him some of the small instruments of his craft — he was a watchmaker and repairer — thinking to make some extra shillings now and then while in camp. He did so. He found plenty of watches to mend, and almost forgot that he was a soldier. One day, when ordered off on some duty, he exclaimed, "Why, how can I go? I've got ten watches to mend!" Some ministers are so absorbed in self-seeking that they are ready to say to the Master's call, "I pray Thee have me excused!" They are nominally ministers of Christ, but really only watch-menders. Mr. Moody says: — I remember when I was in Chicago before the fire, I was on some ten or twelve committees. My hands were full. If a man came to me to talk about his soul I would say, "I haven't time; got a committee to attend to." But now I have turned my back on everything — turned my attention to saving souls, and God has blessed me and made me an instrument to save more souls during the last four or five years than during all my previous life. And so if a minister will devote himself to this undivided work, God will bless him. Take that motto of Paul's: "One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Parallel Verses KJV: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, |
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