The Benefits of Being an Opportunist
Sometimes the term "opportunist" gets bad press. There are those who think that opportunists are taking advantage of people and/or situations for personal gain. However, on the flip side seizing an opportunity is what has won wars, launched companies, saved lives and propagated the Gospel of Christ. In Malcolm Gladwell's book The Outliers he shows graphically how seizing opportunities has given us Apple Computers, Microsoft, Starbucks, etc. Erwin McManus in Chasing Daylight (originally Seizing Your Divine Moment ) and Mark Batterson in In a Pit With A Lion on a Snowy Day show us from scripture and personal experience how the believer is benefitted by being an opportunist. I have noticed that seizing opportunity leads to more opportunity. Perhaps that is the reason we have some of our mega-churches today. In grabbing hold of an opportunity, they showed themselves faithful and God sent more opportunity. It is sort of like the parable of the 3 servants (often c...