In His Name Devotionals
LITTLE THINGS
In His Name Devotionals
LITTLE THINGS
God shows in all parts of His creation the value He sets upon little things. God could thunder all year long; He could shake the ribs of the world with perpetual earthquakes; He could blaze on the air, and brush the mountains every day with His comets. But if He could not feed the grass with His dew, and breath into the little lungs of His insect family; if He could not expend His care on small things, and take an interest in their perfection, His works would be only crude and disjointed machines, without beauty and order, and fitted to no perfect end.
Throughout His teaching, Christ lays the most significant stress upon things which we often consider unimportant details. The servant who was faithful “in a very little” was made ruler over ten cities. He praised the woman who had “done what she could.” He praised the widow’s mite and the cup of cold water. The shepherd hunted the one sheep and the woman one coin. The same truth is prominent in the Old Testament—the one backward look of Lot’s wife, the one lie of Abraham, the one petulant word uttered by Moses, are specimens of the little sins that brought great evil.
Too often we practice little dishonesties and little deceptions, while thinking ourselves Christian!
A lighthouse erected on a tropical shore continually failed because the brilliant light drew clouds of insects, covering and darkening the glass. In like manner, the conscious may have the power to resist great assault, overcome strong temptations and to avoid fearful dangers, but a thousand little venomous insect bites, unimportant and unnoticed individually, can be fearful in their results collectively.
