Continuing from what we were saying yesterday, adversity, opportunity, and now necessity. The wise man was right: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Sometimes the necessities seem the worst. I have to clean the house. I have to go to the office. I have to take my final exams. Why? Because I have to have a semblance of order in my life…because my family and I have to eat, wear clothes, live in a house, and—if possible—have a vehicle. The necessities. Sometimes we want to do them, sometimes not. In Isaiah 40:31, God seems to be saving the best for the last. “Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.” Notice carefully, “mount up with wings like eagles,” “run and not get tired,” and now “will walk and not become weary.” Not only elevation and acceleration but now determination. We can soar, we can run, but more often than not, we will have to live with the pedestrian side of life. This is where most of our lives are lived. The other two are more like exceptions we might experience in our lives, but this last one is the one which mainly involves day-to-day living of the Christian life. It’s “where we are!” It’s where we live about 99% of lives, no matter what line of work or ministry we might be involved in! What is victorious Christian living? Many think, “Why, it’s becoming an international evangelist, a celebrity, or a missionary martyr.” However, it is not soaring like an eagle or running like a deer. It’s really fixing breakfast, doing dishes, getting the kids ready for school, sending them off with a kiss, commuting to work, taking the elevator up to the same floor for the 15th year, attending another meeting, fighting a cold, taking the kids to soccer practice, and still praising the Lord Jesus continually! It’s typing those letters with a smile on your face. It’s mopping floors and taking out the garbage. It’s mundane, ordinary living. So many Christians have complained, “My life’s dull and uninteresting. There’s no glamour, no excitement, no dynamic. I wish I could leave what I’m doing and be famous just for a month like Billy Graham or ….” Maybe our best service is just to walk day by day! For those times when God wants us to soar and run, He will enable us. Not many were called to go up the mountain. Moses was. A few were. But not many. Waiting on the Lord is “following Jesus one step at a time.” It’s serving God in good days and bad, hot days and cold, every day, in every way, day after day, night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year—walking in Jesus! One preacher called our day-by-day walk “religion in shoe leather.” More of us fall flat on our faces doing the necessity when we are simply walking, than when we are in adversity or opportunity. Isn’t that true? It is a thrilling matter to have soaring power and surging power, make no mistake about it. But it is more necessary to have sticking, staying power, “to walk and not become weary,” to keep on keeping on for the Lord Jesus. What is the answer to stress? “Wait upon the Lord.” Long for the Lord. Listen to Him. Look to Him. Live for Him. It sounds simplistic, right? But it works. It really does! It’s God’s way! MORE TOMORROW! STAY TUNED!
Posted on: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:57:08 +0000
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