Missionary Weapons (2)

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet —John 13:14

Ministering in Everyday Opportunities. 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 which 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 menial 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 menial 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” (13:15). Notice the kind of people that God brings around you, and 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 exhibit to those around us exactly what He has exhibited 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 the weapons of war while in the trenches of the battlefield–you will be killed while trying to do it.

We have to go the “second mile” with God (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.” But if we do not steadily minister in everyday opportunities, we will do nothing when the crisis comes.

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傳道者的彈藥

我是你們的主，你們的夫子，尚且洗你們的腳，你們也當彼此洗腳。 （約十三14）

就現有機會事奉，是不揀選自己的環境，而是在神安排的任何環境下，都為神所選用。我們在現有環境下表現的特性，可以代表在任何別的環境下的表現。耶穌所作的，是最卑下的日常工作​​；這就是說我需要神全部的能力，才能依他的腳踪作最平常普通的事。我能像他那樣用一條毛巾麼？毛巾、碗碟、鞋，以及一切日常生活中卑微的事，比別的東西更能反映出我們的本相。最低賤的任務，若要做得完全，就需要我們裡面那位元道成肉身的全能主去做。

[我給你們作了榜樣，叫你們照著我向你們所作的去作。 ]留意神擺在你周圍的人；他要藉此使你認識在他眼中你是怎麼樣的人，你會因此而羞愧。他現在說：[要照我向你所作的，向那個人行。 ]你會說：[呀！到了海外的工廠，我自然會一一去做了。 ]這樣的說法，就等於去到戰壕才製造彈藥，結果在製造的當兒，就送命了。

我們要與神行第[二里路]。有些人在頭十碼就放棄了，因為神要我們行看不見方向的路，我們就說：[我還是等到重大關頭來到時再走。 ]若你在日常小事上不穩步前進，危機來到時，你什麼也做不來。

祈禱◆[耶和華必作王]；噢，主啊，今天願你統治的能力，為著你的榮耀，在你僕人身上彰顯。