Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

the physical powers. Your heart should be in your
present labor. The duty now before you is the very
work which Heaven wishes you to do. To dream of
a work far off, and imagine and plan in regard to
the future, will prove unprofitable, and will unfit
you for the work, small though it may be, which
Heaven now places before you. It should not be
your study to do some great work, but to do
cheerfully and well the work which you see to do
today. Talents are entrusted to your care, to be
doubled. You are responsible for their proper use
or their abuse. You are not to aspire after great
things in order to do great service, but to do your
little work. Improve your talents, even though they
are few, and let a sense of your responsibility to
God for their right use rest upon you.
You need not expect to avoid pain and
weariness in the toils and trials of life. The Son of
God was partaker of the human frame. He was
frequently wearied in body and spirit. Said He: "I
must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it
is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."
You should cease your far-off dreaming, and bring
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