DAY 188
Matthew 9:9 'As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.
Matthew was called not while he was idle, but while he was busy at post. As unglamorous and detested as he was because of this role, he stayed doing something and that was where Jesus found him. The same is true of the 2 pairs of brothers who were called while fishing. It does seem like a trend through scripture that God has a preference for choosing not just those who skilled, but certainly, those He called could not be idle.
Don’t be deceived into thinking you can just sit there idling and then victory, success, and grace comes to find you. You might not have grasped the ways of God yet. Idleness is criteria that will get you disqualified because if offers little advantage to advancing any agenda, even that of God. Ecclesiastes 10:18 reads ‘Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.’
It was necessary that the message of the Gospel was committed into the hands of men who had not embraced idleness. Otherwise, only decay would have become the end result.
We often forget that we live ‘in time’ and that only a finite amount of this time has been alloted to us to be at post. Like many other recourses therefore, time can be wasted, spent or invested – the choice on what to do with it is entirely up to you. So, the question I want you to ponder briefly today is this ‘
when the master, Jesus, comes walking by in time; where will He find you and what will you be doing?’
Will He find you busy at post or will you be found idling?
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