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
will 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 all 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, all 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 will 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 will do all 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 will be killed 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 will wait till I get nearer the big
crisis.” If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we
shall do nothing in the crisis.
On this day...
- Lamentations 4 - 2023
- Lamentations 3 - 2023
- The Preaching of Christ Crucified, the Means of Salvation - 2011
- What is it to be a Christian? - Part 3 - 2011
- What is it to be a Christian? - Part 2 - 2011
- What is it to be a Christian? - 2011
- THE REASON FOR CHASTISEMENT - 2011
- The Spirit of Wisdom - 2011
- Achievement From Right Choice - 2009
- FAITH - 2008
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