Mark 10:1 “Jesus then left that place and went into the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds of people came to him, and as was his custom, he taught them.”
Are you making the most of the opportunities that come your way? Jesus was routinely consistent in seizing the opportunities that were presented to Him. Mark 10:1 identifies one of the habitual practices of Jesus as that of teaching the people whenever the crowds would gather. From all indications He never sent out flyers, He never did a radio broadcast, nor called a special series of revival meetings. What Jesus did was live.
What can be seen in the life of Christ over and over again is a divine response to divinely orchestrated circumstances. Jesus expected the purpose of God to go before Him. Many times He saw it in advance in times of prayer but in all cases He lived with an expectation that the Father would lead Him into fruitful situations and then direct Him in His ministry.
Jesus taught His own disciples not to prepare ahead of time the words that they would say when they stood before kings and governors. He trained them to expect the Holy Spirit to deposit the right things to say into their hearts in each given situation. He taught them a true God dependency! It is also clear that He taught them the lifestyle that He himself had learned before the Father. He did not teach them a static theory that He had never applied in His own experience. This is not to say that He never knew ahead of time what He was going to speak about, but that He was able to live with a responsive flexibility that allowed Him to speak and act spontaneously at the direction of the Holy Spirit when He recognized a “God moment.”
Can you recognize a God moment? Have you allowed your spiritual senses to become sharpened so that you can be the tool of God for divinely orchestrated opportunities? The writer of Hebrews identifies a part of the characteristic of spiritual maturity in Heb 5:14 by saying, “But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” KJV In essence the writer is saying that one of the signs of spiritual maturity is having trained your spiritual senses through consistent use to the point where you are able to discern accurately. As each one of us grows in our capacity to discern God moments we will see the harvest of fruit from our lives consistently increasing like the Lord Jesus. The good news is that this does not come through some deep mystical encounter reserved for only a few. According to He. 5:14 mature spiritual senses are developed through practice! Soooo practice!
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