SERVICE:
MOTIVES FOR; JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST

Any serious-minded Christian may at some time find himself wondering whether the service he is giving to God is the best it could be. He may even have times of doubting, and fear that his toil is fruitless and his life empty.…

The church has marked out certain work and approved it as service acceptable to God, and for the most part the church has been right. But it should be kept in mind that it is not the kind or quantity of work that makes it true service—it is the quality.

Before the judgment seat of Christ, very little will be heard of numbers or size; moral quality is about all that will matter then.… In Christian service motive is everything, for it is motive that gives to every moral act its final quality.

1 Corinthians 4:3–5; 1 Corinthians 15:58; Colossians 3:16–18, 23

The Next Chapter After the Last, 75, 76.