“To do God’s will, that’s all
That need concern us; not to carp or ask
The meaning of it, but to ply our task,
Whatever may befall;
Accepting good or ill as he may send,
And wait until the end.”
One of the most inspiring of truths is that God has a distinct plan for each one of us in sending us into this world. Not only does he create us all to be useful, to take some part in the world’s affairs, to honor and glorify him in some way, but he designs each person for some definite place and some specific work. He does not send us into life merely to fill any niche into which we may chance to be lifted by the vicissitudes of life, or to do whatever bits of work may drift to our hands in the vast and complicated mesh of human affairs. God has a great plan, embracing “all his creatures and all their actions;” and in this plan every intelligent being has an allotted place and an assigned part. God has, therefore, a distinct thought and purpose for each one of us; and a true life is one in which we simply fulfill the divine intention concerning us, occupy the place for which we were made, and do the particular work set down for us in God’s plan.
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