Ministering in Everyday Opportunities. Ministering
in everyday opportunities that surround us does not mean that we select
our own surroundings— it means being God’s very special choice to be
available for use in any of the seemingly random surroundings which He
has engineered for us. The very character we exhibit in our present
surroundings is an indication of what we will be like in other
surroundings.
The things Jesus did were the most menial of everyday tasks, and this
is an indication that it takes all of God’s power in me to accomplish
even the most common tasks in His way. Can I use a towel as He did?
Towels, dishes, sandals, and all the other ordinary things in our lives
reveal what we are made of more quickly than anything else. It takes God
Almighty Incarnate in us to do the most menial duty as it ought to be
done.
Jesus said, “I have given you an example, that you should do as I
have done to you” (13:15). Notice the kind of people that God brings
around you, and you will be humiliated once you realize that this is
actually His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to
Him. Now He says we should exhibit to those around us exactly what He
has exhibited to us.
Do you find yourself responding by saying, “Oh, I will do all that
once I’m out on the mission field”? Talking in this way is like trying
to produce the weapons of war while in the trenches of the
battlefield–you will be killed while trying to do it.
We have to go the “second mile” with God (see Matthew 5:41).
Yet some of us become worn out in the first ten steps. Then we say,
“Well, I’ll just wait until I get closer to the next big crisis in my
life.” But if we do not steadily minister in everyday opportunities, we
will do nothing when the crisis comes.
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