Opportunities

“making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:16
As we look at the world around us, we despair at what it is becoming; the sinful lifestyles people are tolerating and engaging in. We look at the laws our governments are introducing, in disbelief. We read the statistics on abused and aborted children, and are sickened. And so we conclude, like every other generation before us, that the days are evil and the world is indeed getting darker. How much longer until God says ‘enough is enough’, and brings His judgement? If Paul could say that in his time ‘the days are evil’, and speak of the imminency of the return of Christ, how much more so now?
We can have one of two responses to this. We can give up on the world, ignoring its plight and sticking to ourselves or our group of Christian friends. Or we can ‘make the most of every opportunity’, and seek to witness and to minister to as many people as we can in the short time that is left, “that by all possible means [we] might save some” (1 Cor. 9:22).
I would venture to say that most of us are not called to be evangelists. However, we are all called to be witnesses. We are told, “always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have” (1 Pet. 3:15). Look out for those opportunities to do good to others, because this in itself may open a door to witness to them.