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We must be willing
to spend ourselves. When there is opportunity to minister, it must be taken. The Christian soldier may not retreat because of unpleasantness, tiredness, or because he has "paid his dues". In her eighties, Corrie Ten Boom had reached a point on one of her journeys, when she was so exhausted she felt she could not continue. Wasn't she old? Hadn't she been traveling for years and years? Wasn't it time to spend the twilight of her life in her comfortable chair in Holland? Yes, it was time! So she wired her friend in Holland, saying the chair should be dusted off, the place prepared, and she would be soon in retirement. Then she went to bed. Unable to sleep she tossed about until she remembered Amy Carmichael's dream about all the people falling off the cliff, while the Christians were sitting under a tree, singing and making daisy chains. In the dream, men, women and children were merely walking, not doing anything particularly foolish, but they suddenly found themselves falling, and Amy could hear the cries for help as they fell, and could see the hands grasping for anything to cling to. When she called out to the singers, they said they didn't have time for the rescue, and besides, didn't Amy know that these daisy chains had to be made? Corrie immediately pulled herself together, wired the friend again, and said "Cancel the last wire - there is still work to be done". There is always work. Those who do most of the real work rarely feel like it, don't have traditional, human qualifications, and have a physical endurance that is supernatural. Yes it is from the Lord, but He gives it through allowing sight to those who are willing to look. Look around you - almost every person you can see is headed for the cliff, and there is no one who cares. So what if they don't want to hear? So what if you are tired? So what if you have other things to do? So what? |
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