Missionary Munition
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When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. - John 1:48
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Worshipping as Occasion Serves. We imagine we would be all right if a big
crisis arose; but the big crisis will only reveal the stuff we are made of,
it will not put anything into us. "If God gives the call, of course I will
rise to the occasion." You will not unless you have risen to the occasion in
the workshop, unless you have been the real thing before God there. If you
are not doing the thing that lies nearest, because God has engineered it;
when the crisis comes instead of being revealed as fit, you will be revealed
as unfit. Crises always reveal character.
The private relationship of worshipping God is the great essential of
fitness. The time comes when there is no more "fig-tree" life possible, when
it is out into the open, out into the glare and into the work, and you will
find yourself of no value there if you have not been worshipping as occasion
serves you in your home. Worship aright in your private relationships, then
when God sets you free you will be ready, because in the unseen life which
no one saw but God you have become perfectly fit, and when the strain comes
you can be relied upon by God.
"I can't be expected to live the sanctified life in the circumstances I am
in; I have no time for praying just now, no time for Bible reading, my
opportunity hasn't come yet; when it does, of course I shall be all right."
No, you will not. If you have not been worshipping as occasion serves, when
you get into work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous
hindrance to those who are associated with you.
The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping
life of the saint.
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Victoria E Gilkerson
