September 10th — MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
September 10th.MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
Worshipping as Occasion Serves. "When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." John 1:48
We imagine we would be al right if a big crisis arose; but the big crisis wil only reveal the stuff we are made of, it wil not put anything into us. "If God gives the cal , of course I wil rise to the occasion." You wil not unless you have risen to the occasion in the workshop, unless you have been the real thing before God there. If you are not doing the thing that lies nearest, because God has engineered it; when the crisis comes instead of being revealed as fit, you wil be revealed as unfit. Crises always reveal character.
The private relationship of worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. The time comes when there is no more "fig-tree" life possible, when it is out into the open, out into the glare and into the work, and you wil find yourself of no value there if you have not been worshipping as occasion serves you in your home. Worship aright in your private relationships, then when God sets you free you wil be ready, because in the unseen life which no one saw but God you have become perfectly fit, and when the strain comes you can be relied upon by God.
"I can't be expected to live the sanctified life in the circumstances I am in; I have no time for praying just now, no time for Bible reading, my opportunity hasn't come yet; when it does, of course I shal be al right." No, you wil not. If you have not been worshipping as occasion serves, when you get into work you wil not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping life of the saint.