Is it late or really early???

Right now it's about 2:30am and I've just gotten in from work. Tonight I was reminded of how good God is, sometimes He provides opportunities to share His Son when you'd least expect it. And to be honest when you really don't feel like it. And then I'm reminded of how my weakness brings out His strength. I went to work today with no real ambition to do anything other than do my time and leave, but apparently someone else had bigger plans.

The store closes each night around 11 and we're usually out of there by 11:30. But for some reason tonight my boss asked me if I would stick around and help clean the oven and a few other things, I could tell that he really didn't want to clean the oven but it's a good way for a man to say, hey buddy I need to chat. I really had no desire to stay but I felt that little push from you know who so I stayed. I won't go in to detail, but with our heads in a huge pizza oven we discussed life, and why we're here, and some things he'd been thinking about recently. He asked me my take on life and why I thought we were here. I was exhausted but somehow, from somewhere the words came that I could not have spoken had I been completely refreshed and awake. I told him I was a friend of Jesus, not a religious zealot, but that I was just a normal person trying to follow Christ. I told him that I am a hypocrite at times, even in this conversation when I should be excited about talking with him about faith and life I'm tired and in the beginning I just wanted to go home. I told him that my faith is more than church on Sundays, it's about my everyday life, it's how i talk, how i react when customers cuss me out. And finally I told him that it's not about me, it's about him. I told him that my faith, my relationship with Jesus, was about being a friend to him when he needed a friend, not a judge.

So there with our heads in an oven and with oven cleaner starting to get a little strong he simply said, wow, thanks dude. And that was it, no great conversion story to tell you about, not even a prayer together. But I think he understands that he has a friend, and I believe that a seed may have been planted, maybe I'll be blessed and get to harvest it, maybe that will be someone elses blessing. But most importantly tonight I realized His strength in my weakness.

I am a man of unclean lips, and yet I am blessed to proclaim
Holy Holy Holy is the Lord Almighty.......