God's Glory vs. My Usefulness

I recently read in My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers that choosing to suffer means that there is something wrong with you, but choosing God's will- even if it means you will suffer- is something very different. He goes on to say that according to the world's judgement, God is incredibly wasteful with his saints.  God seems to plant His saints in the most useless places.  And then we say, "God intends for me to be here because I am so useful to Him."  Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use.  God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

In this accomplishment driven culture, it is hard for me to separate the most useful, from the most glory to God. Yet when I think about Christ, his ministry was short, his disciples were few, dyeing on the cross didn't make sense to building a kingdom, yet His entire life brought glory to God in ways never imagined.  So when I pray that God will glorify His name with our family, this thought adds an interesting twist to my thinking.