Good Morning Friends,
“Jesus told them another parable: ‘The kingdom
of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though
it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of
garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch
in its branches.’ He told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is
like yeast that a woman took and mixed into a large amount of flour until it
worked all through the dough.’” (Matthew 13:31-33)
Jesus came preaching the Kingdom and while on
earth He gathered only a few followers. After His resurrection, He appeared to
as many as 500 at one time (1 Corinthians 15:6). The movement of Jesus began
with a small handful and in three years grew to around 500 and now it numbers over
two billion!
The Kingdom began in one small area of the
world. Jesus Himself traveled but a few hundred miles during His lifetime. He
never preached in Europe. He left Africa untouched. He certainly didn’t travel
to North or South America. There were vast stretches of land and many people
Jesus never came near. But the Gospel has reached them all in the past 2,000
years. In fact, in just 30 or so years following the death of Christ, people
would be saying, “they have turned the world upside down.” (Acts 17:6)
Zechariah 4:10 speaks of the folly of despising
the “day of small things.” Don’t think God must have a great deal to work with
in order to accomplish a great deal. He could take a small boy’s lunch and feed
a huge crowd with it. He could take a small handful of people and change the
world with them! Today, the impact of the Gospel that began among a handful in
a small part of the world, now touches the whole world and changes millions of
lives every year!
Expect God to keep doing great things with
small resources: like me and you!
His, by Grace, Steve
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