START SMALL

September 20, 2014

This is an age where everyone wants to make it big. The undergraduate wants to drive a Range Rover Sport; the newly employed guy wants to climb the corporate ladder as fast as possible; the guy learning how to drive wants to start doing stunts with the car immediately. We are so much in a hurry to become big that we hardly want to start small. Sometimes, we see starting small as a mediocrity which in actual sense is not.  I am sure you have at one time or the other heard the saying that Rome wasn’t built in a day.

It is not a crime to want to make it big, I also want desire greatness, but what I’m starting to notice more and more, is that great things almost always start small. 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “God changes us from one degree of glory to another,” i.e. one step at a time, allowing us to only deal with what we can currently handle while the potential to grow never stops. Zech 4:10 says, “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.” (NLT)

Don’t feel bad starting small, as a matter of truth, feel good about it because the scripture says in Job 8:7 that, “Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.” Our Lord and Savior Jesus was not scared of starting small. He started with just twelve disciples, from there they became seventy, then five hundred, then three thousand, then five thousand and now we are innumerable. If Jesus had decided to wait for a time when there would be millions to start with, maybe the number of believers on earth today won’t be this much.

May I tell you that small is now the new big and not that anything is wrong with big, but big has to start somewhere. So THINK BIG, but don’t be afraid to START SMALL.

Enjoy your weekend!

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