Read This If You're Busy

I have some friends who are always busy whenever they are called up to do something in the church. Something was always more important than the assignment on ground in the church.

The excuses are always so genuine that I, at a point began to wonder if something is wrong with me. I mean, why am I always available? Since part 1 in the university, I have always been available so, I began to wonder if there was something I ought to be doing so that I would be busy like my friends.

A basic prerequisite to being used by God is to be available. Your availability gives God the right to make you into a usable vessel for great things that are beyond what the mind can capture.

The first choice of leadership in my fellowship on campus happened when I was in part 1. Some days to the date, I prayed a prayer in the third compartment of a place we call 'The Net (or Den)' in OAU.

I told God that I am available. Some things are just odd. What would make a two month old believer tell God that he is available to be used? I didn't even have a clue of what it means to serve God. Since then, there has been grace for me to be available.

Now, I have discovered that I wasn't missing anything out, but I have been labelled available. My friends who were busy on campus are still busy outside campus. It's more of a position than an attitude.

Several people want to be used by God, but they complain that they are so busy. You have to change that position. If you're busy today, you will not be available tomorrow. You remember that verse that says Faith is now?

My friends thought they will be available after school, but they are not. They are still stuck in being busy. Gone are the days when we thought ministry was all about the pulpit and the mic. We now know that every single Christian has a ministry.

Now is the time to be available, not tomorrow.

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