{"id":2686,"date":"2023-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myutmostforprd.wpenginepowered.com\/modern-classic\/ministering-as-opportunity-surrounds-us\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:31:37","slug":"%d1%81%d0%bb%d1%83%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%b4%d0%b0-%d0%b2%d0%be%d0%b7%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%b6%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b8-%d0%be%d0%ba%d1%80%d1%83%d0%b6%d0%b0%d1%8e%d1%82","status":"publish","type":"modern-classic","link":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/modern-classic\/ministering-as-opportunity-surrounds-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0421\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435, \u043a\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u0432\u043e\u0437\u043c\u043e\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0442 \u043d\u0430\u0441"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministering as opportunity surrounds us doesn\u2019t mean choosing our surroundings; it means ministering wherever God places us. The characteristics we manifest now, in our immediate surroundings, show God what we\u2019ll be like in other surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>It takes all of God\u2019s power in me to do commonplace things in the way God would do them. When Jesus washed his disciples\u2019 feet, he was performing work of the most menial and commonplace kind, yet the way he performed it made it holy. Can I use a towel in the way Jesus used a towel? Towels and dishes and all the other ordinary stuff of life reveal what I\u2019m made of more quickly than anything else. It takes God Almighty in me to do my chores in the way they ought to be done.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you\u201d<\/em> (John 13:15). Watch the kind of people God brings around you. You will be humiliated to discover that this is his way of revealing to you the kind of person you\u2019ve been to him. He is telling you to treat the people in your life as he has treated you. \u201cOh,\u201d you say, \u201cI\u2019ll treat people as I should when I\u2019m out ministering in the world.\u201d That would be like trying to produce the munitions of war in the trenches; you\u2019d be killed while you were doing it.<\/p>\n<p>We have to go the second mile with God. Some of us get worn out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way. \u201cI\u2019ll wait to obey until I get nearer the big crisis,\u201d we say. We have to obey <em>\u0441\u0435\u0439\u0447\u0430\u0441<\/em>. If we don\u2019t practice walking steadily in the little things, we will do nothing in the crisis.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministering as opportunity surrounds us doesn\u2019t mean choosing our surroundings; it means ministering wherever God places us. The characteristics we manifest now, in our immediate surroundings, show God what we\u2019ll be like &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2246,"template":"","collection":[],"class_list":["post-2686","modern-classic","type-modern-classic","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/modern-classic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/modern-classic\/2686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utmost.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}