Freely Speaking Audio Devotion

Welcome to Freely Speaking, an OHSOFREE devotional ministry where we share our hearts and trust God for transformation.  

Today, Angela Vandagriff shares how God challenged her to move beyond serving only within her comfort zone and step into a deeper obedience to Christ’s call to serve. 

“And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me”’ (Matthew 25:40 NKJV). 

Living in an ivory tower of beautiful servitude, unaware of how sheltered my service had become, God needed to move me. I was only serving those who were easy to serve.  

I helped feed the hungry, clothed those in need, and opened my home to the unhoused. I extended Christ’s love to the lovable. But I wasn’t fully living in God’s calling for my life. I had not yet surrendered myself to the kind of service Jesus required from me.  

In the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25, Jesus talks about feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, and visiting the sick. Check those boxes for me. However, I quickly read past the words “visit the prisoner”.  

That phrase unsettled me. It made me uncomfortable, yet I began to recognize what the Lord had been whispering to my heart all along. I had been unwilling to step out of what was safe, resisting the deeper call He was placing before me. God was urging me to take the light into the darkness by serving the least, the incarcerated.  

The Lord placed today’s Scripture before me: “To whatever degree you have served the least of My people, you have done it unto Me. Those words stopped me, humbled me. I had not been serving the least of His people, the incarcerated! My soul was convicted; I had not been serving the Lord to the degree I was called.  

I ran from the least of His children and chose the safety of my ivory tower. God asked more of me, and I ran. Today, I'm blooming; I no longer run from the darkness.  

Is God calling you out of your ivory tower? Be spontaneous today and serve outside of your comfort zone. Take your light and run toward the darkness! 

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