Good Morning Friends,
“Who despises the day of small things? Men
will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.”
(Zechariah 4:10)
Zerubbabel’s contribution to the eternal work
of God wasn’t a big thing, he just got the work on the rebuilding of the temple
started. It wasn’t miraculous. It didn’t take superhuman wisdom or strength. It
was just a building project. But it mattered to God, and it mattered to people,
too.
Small things do make a difference in God’s
work in this world.
It was just a little boy’s lunch, a very
small thing. When his mother packed the lunch at the start of the day it was
just a routine act that she had duplicated day after day. But God took that very
small thing and astounded people with it -- Jesus used it to feed a whole crowd
of people.
They were only five small rocks, coupled with
a simple sling. Every boy in Israel had a weapon-toy like that. They hurled
rocks at rabbits and birds and twigs. No one in the world would have been
impressed by that sling and those rocks. Yet, God took those very small things
and a boy named David and killed a giant with them.
It was a little basket that could float. It
was nothing complicated, nothing extraordinary. But God put the baby Moses in
that very small thing and started a course that would change history for the
whole nation of people and the whole world.
Small things matter to God. God takes even
small things and uses them for marvelous eternal purposes. All of things that
we do for God are such small things -- but they matter to Him! They matter to
what He wants to do in the world!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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