| The Every Day of Life |
Chapter 14 |
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This is the only way God can get some of us to do anything for him. We have no time for his special work. We leave no little gaps in our schedule in which to do little errands for him. We crowd our hours so full of things for ourselves that we have not a moment left for ministries for Christ. The only way he can get us to do these things is to press them right into the midst of our scheduled hours.
Here is the lesson: These things that we call “interruptions” are little fragments of God’s will breaking into the midst of the plans we had willed for our own pleasure or profit. We have set ourselves for the day to do his will, and we must not turn any of these interruptions away. He knows what he wants us to do. Supposing that we are tired, or that our own work is waiting, or that we are thwarted of our goal, dare we turn away from the service which God is asking of us, – some little ministry to a child, some comfort to a sorrowing one, some gentle touch to a life that will carry the benediction for days, some showing of the path to a bewildered soul that knocks at our door asking the way, some lightening of the burden for one bowed down, – dare we, would we for words, turn away what God has sent us – these tasks that angels would leap to do – that we may keep on with our own poor little earthly tasks?
We must never forget, at least, that we are learning by doing God’s will, and that God’s will does not all come to us out of a written Bible. Some of it comes fresh from God’s own lips in our life’s circumstances. In whatever way it may come, we are to do it, and in doing it we will find a blessing. Hard tasks and duties are like nuts: they are rough and unsightly, and the hull is not easy to break; but when it is broken we find it full of rich meat.
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