Small Is The New Big
Monday, June 29th, 2009
Last week, as my wife and I were driving home from taking our kids to camp, we saw the darnedest thing – a small car was pulling a big truck. Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around? This kind of thinking comes from someone who can become easily impressed with the big and not so impressed with the small. This picture taught me several lessons:
Small doesn’t always mean weak and powerless.
Big doesn’t always mean powerful and strong.
Small things, with the more than adequate power, can accomplish big tasks.
The big will sometimes be dependent on the small.
I should not despise or show contempt for small things.
God uses small things, and seemingly insignificant people to accomplish big stuff (I am fully aware he uses the big as well). In the past, we have seen God use small babies to deliver a big number of people (Moses and Jesus), a small rod to part a big sea, a small rock to kill a big giant, small boys to run big kingdoms (David and Josiah), and a small band of twelve men to start a big movement, the church.
Are you feeling small, insignificant or unimportant? Are you feeling like your influence, money, education, and accomplishments are too small to accomplish anything big? Remember, God uses small things to accomplish big stuff. He has done it in the past, and he desires to continue it through you today. Submit your weaknesses and inadequacies to his divine power and watch him do amazing things in, through, and with your life.
What weaknesses do you think God wants you to submit to him today?
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