After months of what seems to be “little” accomplishments, part of me longs to hear about some of God\u2019s BIG ways \u2013 BIG wins \u2013 BIG worthwhile news \u2013 BIG discoveries like a cure for Covid. But, I’ve learned God seems to work best in the \u201clittles\u201d.
Just think about the \u201clittles\u201d that God used to make something big. Like, making the first man out of LITTLE dust. Like the LITTLE boy with the LITTLE lunch that fed over 5,000. Like the LITTLE shepherd boy, David, who slew the giant with a LITTLE stone and sling and conquered the Philistine army. And, then there\u2019s Gideon who was the “smallest” in the “least” clan who saved an entire nation. He started with an army of 24,000 and God required him to reduce it to a LITTLE army of 300. God likes LITTLE.
Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se de Lisieux said: “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.\u201d She was known for serving God in such beautiful, \u201clittle ways\u201d. In this \u201c3rd act of my play\u201d, I find myself doing many \u201clittle things\u201d in \u201clittle ways\u201d to serve God — with NO pressure for having to do the big ways!
One of my \u201clittle ways\u201d is this blog each day, desiring to spread good news. I am very aware that when I point one finger out to my readers, there are four pointing back at me, so I better practice what I preach! I\u2019m not tooting my own horn or seeking an \u201catta girl\u201d! But, how can I give action words without action on my part?
Here are some of my “little ways” in the last few days. Tuesday night, I stepped up and volunteered at my grandson’s baseball game and took tickets from attenders at the gate AND I manned the concession stand. I showed a friend how to set up a Facebook account and then join our community group. I gave words of encouragement to a friend whose husband passed away a few months ago. By snail mail, sent a card to another friend. Attended a beautiful celebration of life and loved on my dear friend whose husband passed away a few days ago. I called and encouraged a friend. I made cookies and shared them with neighbors. No real life-altering little ways, but simply showing up to do what I can.
Here\u2019s my motive for today’s blog. We need to take the lid off of LITTLE. Yes, God likes LITTLE. He sent His beloved Son to earth as a LITTLE baby and changed everything about life, death, eternity and giving the hope for mankind of never perishing and living with Him forever if we believe in Him. Now, that\u2019s what I call BIG!
And, that little Baby Boy grew up and said, \u201cAll it takes is a LITTLE mustard seed of faith to move mountains.\u201d Yes, God specializes in making BIG out of LITTLES. He told the \u201clittle children\u201d to come to Him. He directed the disciples to get a “little” coin out of a fish’s mouth to pay their taxes. Quite frankly, LITTLE is MUCH when God is in it. Yes, LITTLE is much when we follow Christ\u2019s example. We\u2019ll find that LITTLE ways pay off in BIG dividends. What will be your LITTLE today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After months of what seems to be “little” accomplishments, part of me longs to hear about some of God\u2019s BIG ways \u2013 BIG wins \u2013 BIG worthwhile news \u2013 BIG discoveries like a cure for Covid. But, I’ve learned God seems to work best in the \u201clittles\u201d. Just think about the \u201clittles\u201d that God used…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22819],"tags":[18354,1210,1769,40,22818,10254,22814,3106,22815,22816,824,2920,22817,18351],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-little-sacrifices","tag-big-wins","tag-blog","tag-christian","tag-inspiration","tag-little-baby","tag-little-boy","tag-little-dust","tag-little-is-much-when-god-is-in-it","tag-little-lunch","tag-little-shepherd-boy","tag-little-things","tag-little-ways","tag-small-sacrifice","tag-st-therese-de-lisieux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15579,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions\/15579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}