When God Calls Us to Move

June 10, 2026

“Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15

Do you ever dwell on opportunities you missed? A chance you could have taken; a word you could have shared; a kindness you could have extended? How many people are walking around with regrets today because they either didn’t take an opportunity or they didn’t make the most of one? Maybe that’s you (I know it’s been me).

So why is it that we don’t make the most of the opportunities we’re given? I think the answers are as varied as we are. Sometimes we’re fearful. Sometimes we’re distracted. Sometimes we’re holding onto anger or frustration or past hurt. And sometimes it’s pride.

In 1739, the evangelist George Whitefield began encouraging John Wesley to join him in open air preaching—sharing the gospel with coal miners and others that most of society looked down on. Wesley didn’t want to do it. He was an Oxford educated Anglican priest, after all. In his journal, Wesley spoke of his ideas on order and decency—and preaching to the riffraff in an open field didn’t fit the bill.

Despite his deep reservations, Wesley went to watch Whitefield preach, and he couldn’t help seeing the deep impact Whitefield’s words were having. Wesley knew that God was presenting him with an opportunity, so, swallowing his pride and laying aside his own preferences, on April 2, 1739, John Wesley stepped into a fieldand preached to 3,000 people. Here is what he wrote in his journal: “At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile, and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.” Now, 287 years later, we are here in no small part because in that moment, John Wesley set everything else aside to make the most of the opportunity God had given him.

In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul cautions the people to be careful how they live and exhorts them to make the most of every opportunity. He shares this urgent word because he knows “the days are evil.” We don’t know how many opportunities we have. We don’t know how many chances we’ll be given. So when God calls on us to move, we need to move—and move right now.

My good church, God is giving us so many opportunities. Let’s commit ourselves to making the most of them. Who knows what God might do through such faithfulness? But whatever comes, one thing I do know: whether things go the way we hope or not, we won’t ever regret making the most of every opportunity.

I love you, church! Let’s get out there and seize on those opportunities coming our way, today and everyday.

Grace and peace,
Brandon