The Next BIG thing?

"Bigger is better."This saying is popular in our society. We're told we need bigger tvs, bigger cars, bigger houses, and the list goes on. This mindset is consistent in setting us up for a need to get more and more to top the last thing we had or accomplished. But, what ever happened to appreciating the little things in life? Why has the value of seemingly small things been reduced to little or none at all?Small things are the building blocks that give way TO something bigger. An example would be the things that we do everyday.  How do you look at those daily tasks you perform? Do they seem insignificant or of no use at all? God's Word says in Zech 4:10"For who hath despised the day of small things?...."  God is constantly at work in our lives everyday, and in control of the smallest detail. He is ever orchestrating events to accomplish His will in our lives and the lives of others around us. One example from God's Word is the little boy with 5 loaves and two fishes. He saw the need, had a willing heart,and gave the LITTLE he had. Not what he thought would be a big meal, but what he HAD. The Lord was the one that took the offering of the LITTLE boy and made it BIG.My guess is that little boy had no idea how much it would be blessed to meet the need of over 5 thousand people!  God is using us in ways that we cannot fathom or begin to understand. All it may take is a kind word to someone who is having a bad day, a phone call to a shut-in, or even a hug to one of the children in our lives. I've watched the Lord use the little things that are said and taught in Sunday School speak to children's hearts in the result of salvation. It's the little things that get the job done. Doesn't the scripture say that the Lord speaks to us in a still SMALL voice?( I Kings 19:12) We know for certain that GOD is big, and if He takes care of things in small ways, who are we to think that what He asks us to do is not BIG? I Corinthians 3:6 says, "So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase." So, as we embark on another year of work here for the Lord, may we realize,that in whatever it is that He has called us to do, that the next BIG thing for Him may just be the LITTLE one! Remember: LITTLE is MUCH when GOD is in it! :)