Psalm 90:12 ‘So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.’
DAILY READING – • Luke 5:27-39; Genesis 1:1-2:25; Psalm 1
Frederick B. Meyer was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England. Though he started off as a small unknown minister, he eventually wrote over 75 books, including Christian biographies and devotional commentaries on the Bible. He later became lifelong friends with American evangelist Dwight L. Moody. He was involved in inner city mission work and was also known as a crusader against immorality who brought about the closing of hundreds of saloons and brothels.
In 1878 he initiated the building of Melbourne Hall, an entirely new, independent venture, designed to evangelize people in the surrounding communities. This mission center attracted great visitors including national figures such as Hudson Taylor as well as local people. Melbourne Hall became a place of pilgrimage and a center of evangelical and missionary influence in Leicester and far beyond.
One day a young preacher approached Dr. Meyer and asked how he could one day become as influential and well known as him. Dr. Meyer responded, “Don’t waste your time waiting and longing for large opportunities which may never come. But faithfully handle the little things that are always claiming your attention.”
When we read the biographies of great men, we often find that most of them started from humble beginnings, from where they grew to eventually become great. This agrees with the words of Jesus in John 12:24, which says that except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone, but when it dies it brings froth much fruit. Indeed, for us to bring forth much fruit, we have to be willing to fall to the ground, to be buried in the unseen season of life, where we die to self and the flesh. In that place where we are unknown and unsung, God trains and prepares us for the assignment ahead. It is the place of pruning, purging and preparation. It is the wilderness journey where we experience a spiritual change of diet as we move from the leeks of Egypt to manna from Heaven.
God has a different process for preparing each of us. But the important thing is that we must pass through that place where we are pruned and proved faithful.
God rewards faithfulness. Proverbs 28:20 tells us that the faithful shall abound with blessings. We therefore have to learn to show faithfulness in little we have been assigned to, before we can be entrusted with greater things.
Where you are now is not God’s ultimate for you. But it is how well you handle today’s placement that will determine tomorrow’s blessing. We therefore need wisdom to maximize our days (Psalm 90:12)
We need the Holy Spirit to teach us to apply our hearts to wisdom because doing the best today puts us in the best place for tomorrow..
Today, let us receive the grace to serve faithfully wherever we are so that we can qualify for elevation to greater heights tomorrow.
PRAYER:
Father please help me to serve faithfully with the opportunities I have been given today, so that I can qualify to receive the greater blessings and open doors you have ordained for me this year in Jesus’ Name.
QUOTE;
It is only when you can see God in the light of who He truly is that you can begin to walk in the overflow of His blessings. – WORDBITE 222
Shalom!
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