Worshiping in Everyday Occasions. We presume that
we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it
is not the crisis that builds something within us— it simply reveals
what we are made of already. Do you find yourself saying, “If God calls
me to battle, of course I will rise to the occasion”? Yet you won’t rise
to the occasion unless you have done so on God’s training ground. If
you are not doing the task that is closest to you now, which God has
engineered into your life, when the crisis comes, instead of being fit
for battle, you will be revealed as being unfit. Crises always reveal a
person’s true character.
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential
element of spiritual fitness. The time will come, as Nathanael
experienced in this passage, that a private “fig-tree” life will no
longer be possible. Everything will be out in the open, and you will
find yourself to be of no value there if you have not been worshiping in
everyday occasions in your own home. If your worship is right in your
private relationship with God, then when He sets you free, you will be
ready. It is in the unseen life, which only God saw, that you have
become perfectly fit. And when the strain of the crisis comes, you can
be relied upon by God.
Are you saying, “But I can’t be expected to live a sanctified life in
my present circumstances; I have no time for prayer or Bible study
right now; besides, my opportunity for battle hasn’t come yet, but when
it does, of course I will be ready”? No, you will not. If you have not
been worshiping in everyday occasions, when you get involved in God’s
work, you will not only be useless yourself but also a hindrance to
those around you.
God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.
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