When you were under the fig tree, I saw you —John 1:48
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.
By Oswald Chambers
Sid Stewart
Executive Director
864 226-6193
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