{"id":2685,"date":"2023-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/worshipping-as-the-occasion-arises\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:37","slug":"beribadah-saat-ada-kesempatan","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/modern-classic\/worshipping-as-the-occasion-arises\/","title":{"rendered":"Beribadah Saat Ada Kesempatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We imagine that we\u2019ll rise to the occasion when a big crisis comes along. But a big crisis only reveals what we\u2019re made of; it doesn\u2019t put anything new into us. Are you telling yourself that you\u2019ll do what\u2019s necessary <em>if<\/em> God gives the call? You won\u2019t\u2014not unless you\u2019re already rising to the occasion. You have to be the real thing with God before the big event, in the workshop of your private life with him.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, God is giving you small, seemingly insignificant things to do, things which may go entirely unnoticed by the world. If you don\u2019t believe God has engineered these things and therefore you aren\u2019t using them as opportunities for worship, you\u2019ll be revealed as unfit when the crisis comes. Crises always reveal character.<\/p>\n<p>A private worshipping relationship with God is the great essential of spiritual fitness. The time will come when you have to step out from \u201cunder the fig tree\u201d\u2014out from your sheltered, private place\u2014and go forth into the glare and the crowd. If you haven\u2019t been worshipping in private, as the occasion arises, you\u2019ll find you have no value to God in the outside world. But if you have been worshipping in private, you will be ready when God sends you out, because in the unseen life\u2014the life no one saw but God\u2014you\u2019ve become perfectly fit. When the strain arrives, God will know he can rely on you.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you have no time for worshipping or praying or reading the Bible? Do you say to yourself, \u201cI can\u2019t be expected to live a worshipful life in the circumstances I\u2019m in right now; my opportunity hasn\u2019t come yet. When it does, of course I\u2019ll be ready\u201d? You won\u2019t be. If you haven\u2019t been worshipping where you are right now, as the occasion arises, then in the crisis you\u2019ll be useless to yourself and an enormous hindrance to those around you. The workshop of the disciple\u2019s life is the hidden, personal time spent worshipping God.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We imagine that we\u2019ll rise to the occasion when a big crisis comes along. But a big crisis only reveals what we\u2019re made of; it doesn\u2019t put anything new into us. Are &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2244,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2685","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}