The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him.
PSALM 37:23
I always say, “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be snapped in two.” Flexibility will enable you to keep stretching and reaching out to those who need a helping hand. That means loosening up your life enough to be ready for God-interruptions.
It’s easy to book our calendars so full that we run from one activity to another, leaving only Wednesday evening Bible study and Sunday morning church as our times for meeting God. That’s not what he wants. He longs to walk beside us into each moment throughout the day, loving us, leading us, guiding us — and yes, gently interrupting us. And that’s what we should want too.
I’d thought God led me to Thessaloniki to speak at a conference and strengthen the church there. But he used my momentarily lost luggage and a little lost sleep to show me where he needed me next. He was interrupting not just my day but the whole direction of my ministry. He was asking me to think of how to reach the missing girls and young women on those posters on the wall in the airport. That was the seed that led to the conception of The A21 Campaign.
The ones we’re asked to go to are not always across the street or around the globe. Sometimes they’re right under our noses and just at our elbows. And the moment we don’t think we have to give? God takes even what we may offer reluctantly at first, and he uses it, in spite of time, on what’s eternal — the thing each of us wants most of all — hope.
MOMENT OF REFLECTION
How do you think you would respond if God asked you to go way out of your way, to take a daring risk for someone who needs your help?