September 11th — MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
September 11th.MISSIONARY MUNITIONS
Ministering as Opportunity Surrounds Us. "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet."
John 13:14
Ministering as opportunity surrounds us does not mean selecting our surroundings, it means being very selectly God's in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers for us. The characteristics we manifest in our immediate surroundings are indications of what we wil be like in other surroundings.
The things that Jesus did were of the most menial and commonplace order, and this is an indication that it takes al God's power in me to do the most commonplace things in His way. Can I use a towel as He did? Towels and dishes and sandals, al the ordinary sordid things of our lives, reveal more quickly than anything what we are made of. It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty as it ought to be done.
"I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you." Watch the kind of people God brings around you, and you wil be humiliated to find that this is His way of revealing to you the kind of person you have been to Him. Now, He says, exhibit to that one exactly what I have shown to you.
"Oh," you say, "I wil do al that when I get out into the foreign field." To talk in this way is like trying to produce the munitions of war in the trenches - you wil be kil ed while you are doing it.
We have to go the "second mile" with God. Some of us get played out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way, and we say - "I wil wait til I get nearer the big crisis." If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we shal do nothing in the crisis.