GOD’S UNSUNG HEROS

Most Of The Great Work Of God Is Done Quietly By God’s Unsung Heroes

 

In a day when everyone, (and especially big name preachers and TV evangelists) it seems wants their name in lights or print. However it is not limited to these only. There are many within the church world who are the very same way when it comes to getting attention. The idea of being an unheralded laborer for God goes down painfully for them. Yet, God’s true work is done without fanfare. For example, who ever heard of:

* Dorcas. At her funeral this quiet servant of God was exonerated for her “deeds of kindness and charity.“

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
(Acts 9:36)

Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.  (Acts 9:39)

And what were her deeds? That of making clothes for others.

* The little nondescript guy who saved a city.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.  (Eccl 9:14-15)

God commands us to do His work without seeking recognition:

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.  (Matt 6:1-2)

Even our private life of prayer with God is to go unnoticed:

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.  (Matt 6:5-6)

The true servants of God understand that God does not take kindly to sharing His glory:

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? And I will not give my glory unto another.  (Isaiah 48:11)

Perhaps you know someone who is always basking in their own glory: My ministry, I am doing this or I am going to do that.

That is precisely why the real work of God is done quietly and humbly, and most often without the notice or appreciation of others.

Such service may appear to be sacrificial, but God’s mature servants are aware that the true rewards will be handed out by Him in eternity. And for this they are willing to wait!