For whoever has despised the day of small things shall
rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven
are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth.”
In the book named A Call to Excellence by Gary Inrig
there isvery powerful story about one of the most influential men of God,
D.L.Moody,
A large group of European pastors came to one of D. L.
Moody's Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s.
Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his
room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course this was
America and there were no hall servants.
Walking the dormitory halls that night, Moody saw the
shoes and determined not to embarrass his brothers. He mentioned the need to
some ministerial students who were there, but met with only silence or pious
excuses. Moody returned to the dorm, gathered up the shoes, and, alone in his
room, the world's only famous evangelist began to clean and polish the shoes.
Only the unexpected arrival of a friend in the midst of the work revealed the
secret.
When the foreign visitors opened their doors the next
morning, their shoes were shined. They never knew by whom. Moody told no one,
but his friend told a few people, and during the rest of the conference,
different men volunteered to shine the shoes in secret.
Wow. I'm humbled, how about you? Many of us want to be
great ministers for the Lord. We want our names and our works to be remembered.
But let's never forget the true ministry of the Lord. Not only would have Jesus
shined those shoes in secret, He would have returned to wash their feet too!
Have you been asking the Lord to use you? Here you have
it! Shine some one's dingy shoes, give a gift to someone in need, love on
someone hard to love -- but don't tell the world -- do it in secret! You can be
sure that the Lord sees these things! And He will open up more opportunities
for you to do even greater things for Him!
Dear Lord, help our eyes be opened to the opportunities
that we have to serve You through others. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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