Really How Can One Feel Insignificant?

Really How Can One Feel Insignificant?

 

Good Morning Friends,

 

Here in Collier County, Florida we have more than 40 species of mosquitoes. And with all the recent rains they are breading and hungry. The number holds no specific significance in a Biblical sense no more than the fact that only three of them pose a severe health threat. Most of them seem irrelevant and yet they, like the mosquito buzzing around my head last night, can become profoundly important. Friends, not all mosquitoes suck blood but they all make an annoying buzzing sound that can keep one awake at night. So if you think you are too small to make a difference, then try spending the night with a mosquito. Here is point. In a world with billions of mosquitos and billions of people in a universe with billions of planets, right now that mosquito does not seem trivial to me. So right now I am thinking that God created that mosquito so I might enjoy the reality that I am important. Really How Can One Feel Insignificant?

 

Scripture: 10’Whoever is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and whoever is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.

 

Luke 16:10 (NRSV)

 

18He said therefore, ‘What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? ¹⁹It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in the garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.’

 

Luke 13:18-19 (NRSV)

 

The psalmist wrote, “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

 

Palm 139:14 (NRSV)

¹²Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

 

Isaiah 40:12 (NRSV)

 

Paul wrote, “Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.”

 

Colossians 4:15 (NRSV)

40 

‘Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. ⁴¹Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; ⁴²and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.’

 

Matthew 10:40-42 (NRSV)

 

Message: What we think is small may become great. Look at the mustard seed.  Look at a mosquito. Look at an act of love or the opening of one’s home with hospitality and the sharing of the Word. It is easy to grow discouraged thinking that our acts of kindness are insignificant. From time to time we may all wonder if our efforts are making a difference. People want to know that what they are doing counts for something. But it is not our responsibility to be concerned about what God will produce from acts of love towards others. He does not call us to some earthly form of success, He calls us to obedience….to love our neighbors without knowing the fruit of the action. We serve a God of seasons measured through truth and revelation a fresh Word of His ways. Here we are to have hope that a little will become much in the Master’s hands…that great things will come from small beginnings. Make a little buzz. Nothing is insignificant. God uses what is small to do great things. It is impossible to do something insignificant in the eyes of God if it is done in love.

 

Pray that God multiples the little….one child… one neighbor …one family… one church… one community at a time…one by one accomplishing His purposes. Pray that our faith would grow as it gives meaning to all the small acts of service we provide. Pray we trust God to accomplish everything He wants to do through our lives no matter how insignificant it might appear in the eyes of others. Pray we believe that great things can come from small beginnings. Pray we overcome the fear of failure in our lives. Pray we do not undervalue any individual as insignificant. Pray that we realize that no man is a failure who has a friend in Jesus. Pray that God’s majesty and love be a comfort to those who feel unimportant and insignificant. Pray with thanks that our Lord finds value in us.

 

Blessings,

 

John Lawson