"What an incredible example
of an intellectually deprived humanoid." I fussed to myself as I walked
away from an unpleasant encounter. The
"grrrrrrr" feeling stuck with me for quite some time afterward.
"You just lost an opportunity
to tell him about Me," that still small voice inside me said. "And
you may never get another one."
"You know, God, I sure wish
I could recognize those events as opportunities rather than personal
affronts." (Sometimes my Parkinson's increase these feelings, but God is
greater).
I meet people everyday that I
fail to see as opportunities. Many
people are lost and don't even know it.
They are "lost" opportunities. Positive encounters or negative
affronts can all opportunities. An
interesting thing is that even my Parkinson's creates opportunities.
Basically, God is tugging on my
heart to care about others while nudging me to speak up about Him. There are many "lost" opportunities
out there, I just pray I recognize them and don't become filed in my "lost
opportunities" file.
"How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?
and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall
they hear without a preacher?" Romans 10:14.
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