Spurgeon's Sermons: Volume Forty-Two

This is what Christ prefers beyond anything else-that His servants should follow Him. If we do that, we shall serve Him in the way which is according to His own choice. I notice that many good friends desire to serve Christ by standing on the top rung of the ladder. You cannot get there at one step, young man Your better way will be to serve Christ by following Him, by, "doing the next thing," the thing you can do-that little simple business which lies within your capacity which will bring you no special honor, but which, nevertheless, is what your Lord desires of you. In effect, you can hear Him say to you, "If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me, not by aiming at great things, but by doing just that piece of work that I put before Him at the time." "Do you seek great things for yourself?" said the Prophet Jeremiah to Ba-ruch, "seek them not." So say I to you.