Opportunity - Action 4/24 Wed. Wisdom

That's the title on this part of a sermon by Smith Wigglesworth. It's a little long, but since it's a story it reads fast. Good application for modern attempts to evangelize our present culture.


On the ship one day they said to me, "We are going to have an entertainment." They said, "Would you be in the entertainment?" "Oh," I said, "Yes, I will be in anything that is going to be helpful," and I believe God was in it. So they said to me, "What can you do?" ... I said, "I can sing" ... They said, "We are going to have a dance." I said, "Put me down just before the dance," and so my turn came.

If you knew how I was longing for my turn to come, because there had been a clerical man there trying to sing and entertain them, and it seemed so out of place. My turn came on, and I sang: "If I could only tell Him as I know Him." ... When I got through the people said, "You have spoilt the dance." Well, I was there for that purpose, and a preacher came to me afterwards and said, "How dare you sing that?" Why, I said, how dare I not sing it, it was my opportunity, and he was going to India, and when he got to India he wrote in his periodical, and sent it over to England. He said, "I did not seem to have any chance to preach the Gospel," but "there was a plumber on board [Wigglesworth] who seemed to have plenty of opportunities to preach to everybody, and he said things to me that remain. He told me that the Acts of the Apostles was only written because they acted. . ."

And so that opened the door, and got me in the place that I could speak all the time, the door was open in every way.

[Wigglesworth goes to tell of healings and conversions that followed.]