Every Liability Can Be An Opportunity for Unique Ministry

Today's excerpt from the book Extreme Devotion is very encouraging and also holds a surprise.  Can you find the surprise? Comment.

Mihai’s Volkswagen van slowly inched its way closer to the border checkpoint. He anxiously whispered a short prayer, “Dear Jesus, please protect your Word from being found and confiscated by the border guards.”

    The guards sternly and methodically ordered him out of the van and began their list of questions: “What brings you to our country? Will you be visiting anyone here? If so, whom? Do you have any guns?”
    

Mihai carefully answered each question, but his heart beat with great intensity as, out of the corner of his eye, he caught one of the guards looking under every seat in his van. Mihai started to get weary from standing so long. Satisfied with Mihai’s answers, the guards finally allowed him to enter their country, his precious goods successfully hidden from their view.

    For years, this courageous young courier had smuggled gospel literature into Communist nations in Eastern Europe, his secret cargo never being discovered. Mihai was an ordinary man whose extraordinary vision was quite a challenge. He had no legs—they had been amputated almost to his hips—but he was determined not to let this handicap get in his way.

    Like the apostle Paul, Mihai knew that Christ’s power would be perfected in his physical weakness. After being fitted with metal limbs, he would stuff the literature into the hollow of each leg and then eagerly begin his journeys.

God is an equal-opportunity employer when it comes to his service. Mihai saw his personal limitation as, instead, a great way to join God in a creative work. Every liability can be an opportunity for a unique ministry. For example, those who come from the tragedy of a divorced family can minister to others in similar situations that others cannot. What have you long considered to be drawbacks regarding your own usefulness in God’s kingdom? Think about them from God’s perspective. Then offer them to God and see how he can use them to his glory and your gain