Little ‘Things’ Can Have Big Consequences

“This third I will bring into the fire;
    I will refine them like silver
    and test them like gold.
They will call on my name
    and I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’”

Zechariah 13:9

Every so often you will read of some celebrity who was “discovered” by a talent agent or someone in “the business”. They were sitting in a restaurant or some other place, minding their own business and “poof” the next thing you know they are on the cover of “People” magazine.

Everywhere you look you see their image!

They are the next great somebody.

They are the newest hot commodity.

They are an ‘overnight sensation’!

As believers we must understand that great men and woman of God are not ‘discovered’.

They are developed in the hidden places of everyday life.

There are no shortcuts to maturity in the Kingdom of God.

We may be ‘suddenly’ introduced to a person being mightily used of God and because we had not heard of them before we assume they are a recently “discovered star”.

After all, American Idol, The Voice and other shows in that genre’ try to make us believe it only takes one television season to churn out tomorrow’s newest star.  

But you’ve probably heard that old saying – “He puts his pants on one leg at a time” – which is another way of saying of others that they face the same tasks and issues that each of us do.

God is no respecter of persons.

If we desire to be greatly used of Him, we will have the opportunity to be faithful first in the little things.

The seemingly unimportant things, the ‘invisible’ actions (at least we think no one sees them) that God brings into our everyday lives to refine us.

 Some will pooh-pooh them as not worthy of their attention and certainly not important in the grand scheme of things.

But they are important to God.

He sees those choices made in secret and even the ones done in the full view of others that we have somehow regarded as of little consequence.

Little by little they too can become great.

Great evidence of a life that is not faithful to God in the little things

 – or –

great evidence of a life that is!

Do you want to be greatly used of God?

Then let God develop you in the hidden places of everyday life.