‘Small’ Works Are Not Insignificant to God!

‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’

 Luke 19:17

How many people were raised from the dead today when you prayed?

None, you say?

Good!

No, I’m not suffering from a bad attitude, but…

Sometimes we miss the will of God in the ‘small’ works while we meditate on the mighty works He never required of you today.

In other words, we are so busy daydreaming about how God might someday use us that we miss the small but no less important moments He wants to use you today.

Call it ‘faith procrastination!’

After all, Jesus said we would do greater works than He did, didn’t He?

Yes, but even Jesus spent thirty years growing in wisdom and favor before the Father used Him in ways evident to others.

You see, if Jesus was without sin, then that included being without sin in those thirty years when few eyes were on him and no public ministry had yet taken place. He was being prepared. He was growing.

I am convinced that much of our ‘learning curve’ with God (at least I am convinced much of my learning curve) is while he deals with our unbelief and our pride. Unbelief, in that God would use us and pride because we so very much crave the praise of man when He does use us.

  The will of God for my life, and yours, can most often be found in a hundred small, obedient tasks that cultivate, in us, the willingness to listen and obediently respond when no one but God is watching. Do you want to be used in mighty ways?

Then learn to obey in the “not-so-mighty” works He has called you to do!