Matthew 6:4 So that your giving may be in
secret: and thy Father which sees what is done in secret will Himself reward
you openly.
Zechariah 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they
shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those
seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole
earth.
I came across this very powerful story about one
of the most influential men of God in my life, D.L.Moody, in a book named A
Call to Excellence by Gary Inrig.
A large group of European pastors came to one of
D. L. Moody's Northfield Bible Conferences in Massachusetts in the late 1800s.
Following the European custom of the time, each guest put his shoes outside his
room to be cleaned by the hall servants overnight. But of course this was
America and there were no hall servants.
Walking the dormitory halls that night, Moody
saw the shoes and determined not to embarrass his brothers. He mentioned the
need to some ministerial students who were there, but met with only silence or
pious excuses. Moody returned to the dorm, gathered up the shoes, and, alone in
his room, the world's only famous evangelist began to clean and polish the
shoes. Only the unexpected arrival of a friend in the midst of the work
revealed the secret.
When the foreign visitors opened their doors the
next morning, their shoes were shined. They never knew by whom. Moody told no
one, but his friend told a few people, and during the rest of the conference,
different men volunteered to shine the shoes in secret.
Wow. I'm humbled, how about you? Many of us want
to be great ministers for the Lord. We want our names and our works to be
remembered. But let's never forget the true ministry of the Lord. Not only
would have Jesus shined those shoes in secret, He would have returned to wash
their feet too!
(From an online devotional site)
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