September 11: Missionary Munitions - Ministering as Opportunity Surrounds Us

In 1981, our congregation built a whole new church. We hadn't been attending very long, but I wanted to help. As I drove up, I told the Lord I would do whatever they needed me to do. I just wasn't prepared for them to need me to clean construction-dirty toilets. Yet the smile never left my face as I loaded up with cleaning supplies and headed off for two hours of working alone.

Looking back, I think that day was a mile-stone in my spiritual life. By submitting to work I neither liked or am gifted to do (if you've ever been to my house on the spur of the moment, you've noticed that I am "domestically challenged"), I learned a huge lesson in "being very selectly God's in any haphazard surroundings which He engineers for us." Chambers was right on when he said, "It takes God Almighty Incarnate in us to do the meanest duty as it ought to be done."

Jesus, help us to "go the second mile with You." Help us to "run steadily in the little ways," so we can do mighty things in the crisis. Help us to learn to look for clues in the kind of people You bring around us so that we can find what kind of person that we have been to You.