Quiet Talks on Service
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The emphasis of our age is doing. But first draw near to our Lord, and then His light in you will pierce the darkness of our age.
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The emphasis of our age is doing. But first draw near to our Lord, and then His light in you will pierce the darkness of our age.
Note keenly that true touch with God always brings the longing to be pure and the love of one’s fellow man. The nearer one gets to God, the nearer he will find himself getting to men. Often we find ourselves getting wonderful new glimpses of God as we are eagerly helping somebody. Up seems to include out, as though the line that drew us up to God led through men, even while it is simultaneously true that the more one is in touch with God, the more one desires to be alone with Him.
There are always three turnings of a true life: upward, inward, and outward. Upward to God, inward to self, and outward to the world. The more one knows God, the keener is the longing to get away with Him alone, the deeper is the yearning to be pure, and the stronger is the passion to help others regardless of any sacrifice involved.
Our lives must have their source high up in the mountains of God, fed by a ceaseless supply. Only so can there be the purity and momentum that will keep us pure and that will keep us moving down in contact with the men of the earth. And we must keep closer to the source than the Rhône at Geneva, or else the streams flowing alongside will unduly influence us.
Constant personal contact with Jesus is the ever-new beginning of service.
About the Author
Samuel Dickey Gordon (1859–1936), better known as S. D. Gordon, was a widely read Christian writer, Bible teacher, and speaker. After serving in leadership with the YMCA, he devoted himself to Bible conferences, missionary gatherings, writing, and lecturing in North America and abroad. He is best remembered for his popular Quiet Talks series.
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It took me a couple of chapters to acclimate to the conversational style of writing, but by the end of the book, I loved it and couldn’t imagine it being written any other way.
There were several impactful passages in this book that I highlighted and shared with others. In the first chapter, Gordon speaks of our personal contact with Jesus as being the beginning of service. This is what he has to say, “The original image in which we were made has been badly obscured and faded out. But if we give our great Master a chance, He will restore it through our eyes. It will take much patience and a skill nothing less than divine.” He goes on to say, “In the thick of the crowd, in the solitude of one’s duties, with hands full of work, the heart talks with Him and listens, and sometimes the tongue talks too. Our common word for it is prayer. Prayer precedes true service, and produces it, and sweetens it. Only the service that grows up naturally out of this personal contact with Jesus counts and tells and weighs the most.”
The author goes on to speak about our perspective of service, “A Jesus-man is never absorbed in thinking about himself. He is taken up with Jesus and with people.” He also discusses that our heart attitude is one of giving freely and spontaneously to Jesus: He wants noting except what is voluntarily surrendered. “He wants only voluntary followers. He would have us be as Himself. The oneness of spirit leads the way into the intimacy of closest friendship. And that is His thought for us.”
He continues on regarding our relationship with Christ and what others see. “There must be peace before there can be power. You will find peace. Others will find power. You will be conscious of the sweet sense of peace within. Others will be conscious of the fragrant power breathing out of your life, and service, and your very person.” “But when we allow this Jesus Spirit to take possession of us, He imparts His cheerfulness. For the real secret of a transfigured life is a transmitted life. It’s Somebody else living in us, with a capital S for that Somebody, looking out of our eyes, giving His beauty to our faces, and His winningness to our personality.” I don’t know about you, but that’s what I want others to see in me!