What Shall This Man Do? by Watchman Nee

Author:Watchman Nee [Nee, Watchman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Life, sermons
Publisher: Fort Washington, Pa. : Christian Literature Crusade
Published: 1966-04-09T17:00:00+00:00

WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DO?

because we have only one talent may reveal in us desires and ambitions outside the will of God, or worse, a dissatisfaction with that will. But no, if it pleases Him to make me the greatest member, praise the Lord! If He chooses instead to make me the least, praise Him no less! Am I a hand, or a foot? I will gladly be just that. I am perfectly satisfied with His choice, and willing to function in His appointed sphere, and if I accept His gift and use it, the one can grow to two, and very quickly there will be five or even ten.

Paul wrote: *Encourage the faint-hearted' (i Thess. 5. 14), and the word is literally *small-souled\ We should encourage the one-talent man, not because of the magnitude of his gift—it isn't so very big after all—but because the Holy Spirit indwells him. His ground of expectation is to be God Himself One of my own closest colleagues, before he was born again, was regarded by his friends as incredibly dull, indeed almost stupid. Yet when God took hold of his life and the Holy Spirit began to work in him, within two years he already showed signs of becoming, as he now is, one of the most gifted Bible teachers in China.

So the first law of function is that we use what we have been given. We cannot excuse ourselves and say, *I am not needed here.' Nor shall we fmd spiritual refreshment by taking our Bibles and notebooks and retiring to a quiet spot to prepare for some imagined future ministry, if in so doing we are evading a present responsibiUty. Our physical body may be refreshed thereby, but not our spirit. No, the rule is always to serve others with what we have in hand, and as we do so, to discover that we ourselves are fed. Recall the story of Jesus at the well. He was hungry, for He had sent His disciples to buy food, and thirsty, for He asked the Samaritan woman for a drink. But when the disciples came back He could claim to have eaten. He had been strengthened by doing the will of God in ministering to one soul in need.

The fellowship of the Body is always two-way: receiving and giving. Wanting only to receive is not fellowship. We may not

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