Tozer on Service... This Could Hurt

I try make it a daily practice to read a brief insight on leadership from A. W. Tozer. His views are most certainly not business-minded or pop-psychology induced so that is refreshing. They are also typically convicting and correcting. Most leaders, in fact most all of us, need both. Here is the one from 23rd March

"Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done. In God's sight my giving is measured not by how much I have given but by how much I could have given and how much I had left after I made my gift. The needs of the world and my total ability to minister to those needs decide the worth of my service.

Not by its size is my gift judged, but by how much of me there is in it. NO MAN GIVES AT ALL UNTIL HE HAS GIVEN ALL. No man gives anything acceptable to God until he has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

In the work of the church the amount one man must do to accomplish a given task is determined by how much or how little the rest of the company is willing to do. It is a rare church whose members all put their shoulder to the wheel. The typical church us composed of the few whose shoulders are bruised by their faithful labours and the many who are unwilling to raise a blister in the service of God and their fellowmen."

He could not be more insightful...

SImon