Message from Scripture: 4/12/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Zech. 4:10. “For who has despised the day of small things?”

 

Our lives are spent mainly in tending to small duties.  We have a normal routine we follow most days.  Few of us will ever do anything which society would consider great.  Even so, our lives are nothing to despise!  A great life consists in doing small things well every day.  The importance of prayer, phone calls, cards, visits, meals, and more, are significant when we do them for the Lord.   How many lives can be touched, or the sick strengthened, and the weak cheered, through prayer?  How many people have you encouraged through a visit, card, or call?  How many have been blessed by a meal you offered?  How many have the hope of salvation because of your influence, persistence, and love, in reaching out to them with the gospel?

 

Jesus said, “And whoever gives to one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward” (Matt. 10:42).  A body of the Lord's people, doing what they can in service to Him, will find together they can be of great value to the Master.  It is through Him that “...all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase which is from God” (Col. 2:19).

 

Think about all the various things you can do, the good you can accomplish, and the opportunities that await.  Don't underestimate the importance of what you do for the Lord, great or small!  Despise not the day of small things. Have a great day living for Christ today. God bless.

 

Robert