Missionary Munitions
When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. – John 1:48We 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.