“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” (Luke 16:10)
A few days ago, the Lord asked me to do something simple, but challenging. I did it. And I learned a lot through it.
I learned that if I can’t be obedient with the smallest things that the Lord asks of me, he will never give me more responsibility to carry bigger things. I want to be trusted by the Lord. Trust is built through experience and time. So, if he asks me to do something small and I refuse, it means that I will also refuse big things.
If you think about sports, getting in shape, conditioning, etc., a coach isn’t going to ask you to run 50 miles, do 100 sprints or 200 burpees the first time you work out. Your muscles wouldn’t be able to endure the intensity of the exercise. A good coach would start with little, and then slowly add more as practices continued. That’s how you build endurance: you start with little, build muscle, get in shape, and then are able to do MUCH.
The Lord is giving me small opportunities to obey so that he can entrust me with more responsibility. The minute and mundane is not in vain. It is not futile. Small things are preparation for greatness.
Small obedience proves trustworthiness. Those that can be trusted with little can also be trusted with much. If I am faithful with little acts of obedience, the Lord will trust me with obedience in greater things. And I will go from glory to even greater glory, looking more and more like Jesus.
Don’t be ignorant towards to small obedience. I’ve done it too much. I will continue to do it because I’m human. My flesh will win time and time again, actually. It takes a constant panting and longing before the throne for desire – and the faithfulness of God – to live in obedience to the Spirit. I want a heart that desires to obey… God says that if we ask for good gifts, he will give them. If his child asks for something to eat, something to sustain and fill, he will not give him a snake or stone (Matthew 7:9-11).
Ask. Keep asking. Knock. Keep knocking. Keep begging for desire, keep saying yes, keep asking for eyes that see opportunities for obedience.
Go pray for that stranger. Look that person in the eyes and listen instead of looking at your phone. Go spend time alone with Jesus. Give up those sweets or coffee or food. OBEY. Just say yes, and he will trust you with much.
My squad leader from last year, Lucie, wrote me a letter at the end of the Race. There’s an old prayer excerpt that she put in it, and I’ve been reading/praying for it lately. Read it. Pray it with me if you want.
“Blessed Lord, let me climb up near to thee, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle with thee, and pant for deliverance from the body of sin. For my heart is wandering and lifeless, and my soul mourns to think that it should ever lose sight of its Beloved. Wrap my life in divine love, and keep me ever desiring thee, always humble, and resigned to thy will, more fixed on thyself, that I may be more fitted for doing and suffering.” (Longings After God).
Love you all.
-Lyss
