And sometimes those who are required thus to spend their days and nights in ministry for others feel that their lives count for nothing in work for Christ.

They hear the appeals for laborers and for service, but cannot respond.

Their hands are already filled.

Yet Jesus whispers, "These for whom you are toiling, caring, and spending time and strength are mine, and in doing for them you are doing for me just as acceptable work as are those who are toiling without distraction or hindrance in the great open field." Sometimes the work we do for Christ with purest love fails, or seems to fail of result.

Nothing appears to come of it.