LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT - Submitted by Willetta Pilcher
Have you ever noticed how important LITTLE things are?
A missing cotter pin – smaller than a hairpin sometimes
A little bolt – holds it all together
Remove a spark plug – stall out an engine
Small items but so necessary – They aren’t the big machine… but
they matter.
Leave out the baking powder and you have a flat offering.
Forget the salt and some foods are nearly tasteless.
Leave out the yeast and the dough will not rise.
Small ingredients, but so necessary – They aren’t the whole cake…
but they matter.
Who of us hasn’t marveled at the smallness/fragileness of a
snowflake?
They stop the largest of machines... locomotives.
A drop of water... Creates the devastation of a Tsunami .
They are ineffective alone… but together they accomplish much.
At harvest time… Grains of wheat, corn, canola.
All small but fill many, many semi’s and railcars.
Alone… they are almost worthless… together they feed nations.
Consider a grain of sand and beaches that stretch for miles.
A tiny leaf... in a hurricane/tornado... still clings to a tree.
A flimsy straw... driven deep into a tree.
Size and seeming ability are totally unimportant to God. God takes
little things and makes a mockery of man's power.
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
I think of David and his five smooth stones and the giant Goliath
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
The widow's cruse of oil and a handful of meal… fed Elijah, the woman
and her son many days
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
The widow's mite put the gifts of the rich to shame.
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
The lad's two small fishes and five small barley loaves fed 5000 men
with twelve basketful left over.
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
God fed millions with manna… it fell like frost… the size of
coriander seed.
Coriander seed is an herb. Can you imagine how long it took to pickup
those tiny pieces; Especially enough to feed a family?
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
Is it possible that God uses these small things… to show us how
mighty He is? To show us how insignificant small things appear
and yet, how important they are? Paul seemed to think so.
1Co 1:26-31 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;
and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things
which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are
despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to
naught things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But
of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as
it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
Those verses will keep you humble if you take them to heart.
Foolish… Weak… Base… Despised things…
God gives us wisdom, righteousness, redemption and then He sanctifies
us and sets us apart unto himself. He takes our little and makes much of
it. All he asks of us is our willingness, obedience, faithfulness and
dependency.
We are much like a glove… Weak, Helpless, and without Ability. He
blows into us the breathe of life and fills us with His Holy Spirit and
through us accomplishes much for the Kingdom.
Why does He choose us? Because He is God and the choice is His to
involve us in life's process. God allows us to partner with Him to
accomplish His agenda.
Why didn’t he fill the plates of Israel instead of having them work
for their food? Because He is God and the choice was His to involve them in
their need for food. He chose for their good because of His love.
Why doesn't He force the world to serve Him? Because He is God and the
choice is His. He chooses those who chose to love Him. I believe God
gets a tremendous delight out of watching us accomplish what He gives
us the ability to do.
We are insufficient in and of ourselves… That's the way God made
us…We need God… We need each other… We are not an island unto ourselves.
We like to think we are sufficient all by ourselves… but we aren’t.
Like the Psalmist says in…
Psa 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they
labor in vain that build it:
God allows us to choose to obey… then gives us the ability to do.
Are you aware that Jesus operated under the same restraint?
John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son
likewise.
John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my
judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the
Father which hath sent me.
Jesus, as a man, could accomplish nothing without the Father.
Why then should we think we could accomplish anything without Him?
John 15:1-5 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch
that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide
in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the
vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
All God asks of us is for us to be available, obedient, faithful, and
dependent upon Him and in the process do what he asks.
He desires to be involved in all of our life.
The next time you feel independent... like you don't need any help...
just remember… Jesus needed help to live in this world
The next time you feel inadequate or that what you do matters
little…Remember … HE is the one who energizes your efforts.
A little boy was walking along the beach. Ever so often he would stop
and pick up a star fish that had been washed ashore and throw it back
into the water. A gentleman stopped the little boy and asked, “What
difference does it make if one of those things gets thrown back into
the water?” “Well, Sir,” the lad replied, “I guess it makes a great
deal of difference to that one.”
And so our labor makes a difference to that one that our lives touch.
A church was having a revival meeting and attendance was very poor. The
board wanted the pastor to cancel the remaining meeting but the
Evangelist objected. The next evening a small boy accepted the Lord,
the
only convert during the whole meeting. That lad was D. L. Moody: A man
that influenced millions and continues to do so even though he is
deceased. What if the meeting had been canceled? What would it have
mattered?
Will you be available to do your part even though it seems small?
Small things matter. They are usually ineffective by themselves, but
together, with His help, they build His kindom, His church, one person
at a time.
LITTLE IS MUCH WHEN GOD IS IN IT
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