Serve Your Generation
Acts 13:36
David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep...
Thomas Guthrie, Speaking To The Heart, “The Trial and Triumph of Faith”, 1873
The times, it is said, make men. True; but it is as true that men are made for the times - raised up by God with gifts and graces suited to the work they have to do.
C.H. Spurgeon, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 1892, "His Own Funeral Sermon" on Acts 13:36
https://archive.spurgeon.org/sermons/2243.php
That man serves his generation best who is not caught up by every new current of opinion (Zeitgeist), but stands firmly by the truth of God, which is a solid, immoveable rock.
A.W. Tozer The Next Chapter After the Last
To fall asleep before we have served our generation is nothing short of tragic. It is good to sleep at last, but it is a moral calamity to sleep without having first labored to bless the world. No man has any moral right to lie down on the earth till he has wrought to take something of the earth out of the hearts of men, till he has helped to free men from the tyranny of that same earth and pointed them to that kingdom that will abide after the earth is no more.
14 Sermons on Acts 13:36