The Greater Need

"Each of us must be thoroughly cultivated before He (the Lord Jesus) can effectively cultivate others through us. It is not that there will be no service for us until we are spiritually mature, but that most of our service on the way to maturity is for our own development, and not so much that of others. At first the growing believer thinks, and would have others feel, that all his service is effective; but in time he comes to realize that the Lord is not doing so much through him as He is in him. Our Lord always concentrates on the greater need.

- From The Complete Green Letters by Miles J. Stanford