Day 19: The Believers Weapons | 1.22.26

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 that 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 simplistic 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 simplistic 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” (John 13:15). Notice the kind of people that God brings around you. 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 “Be” to those around us exactly what He “Was” 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 weapons of war while in the trenches of the battlefield – you will be killed while trying to do it.

It is critical that we go the “second mile” with Jesus (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.” However, if we do not consistently minister in everyday opportunities, we will be unprepared when the crisis arises.