Little Things Matter

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Pride

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.

William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

2 Cor 5:12-15
We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. NASU

Big things make big impressions on us. Big ships, big houses, and yes even big churches, but what really is the power of size. The power of size is only powerful in that it can unite small things, big is a lot of little that is put together. It is organized and has purpose, and that is what makes it “Big.”

Many Christians desire to do big things for God, and big is where they desire to start. Big is really nice to look at, but what really moves big is the power of those that take control of the small things in their lives. If we would desire to do big things for Him in our lives it means that we must take control of those little things and use them for the Glory of God. We must get rid of little things that prevent the Holy Spirit from doing the little things in us that must begin before God will give us bigger things to do.

For Big to work right and to remain upright and true, the little things must be aligned and in order, and that is what God is doing in us daily. Now the amazing thing about these little things that we allow to happen in us is that they begin the big things of God and start within us the growth process that God intended for us all along. Those little streams of pure and unstained love that flow from us begin to break down the big things in our lives that have defeated us all along.

When that happens people come to share and watch those little things come from you and I, little beams of light that become a “Great Light” for all the world to see, and little streams of water that become a might rushing stream that will move mountains for God. So lets you and I pay more attention to the little things, in us and gather them together…to see the Great Things, only God can do…God Bless.

Pastor William