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 | | From: | JPF | | Subject: | It's only a little thing | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:04:26 GMT |
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 | It's Only a Little Thing
Luke 16:10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful
also in much.
The world is made up of "little things." Everything big can be broken
down into extremely small particles. For example our bodies are composed
of millions of cells. Water is made up of drops, and drops in turn
consist of molecules. They can be further reduced to atoms. So too with
time. It can be divided into years, years into days, days into hours,
minutes and seconds. Life itself is a composite of individual acts,
words and thoughts. Therefore, if the little things are kept pure and
clean, if every act and word is carefully weighed, the sum total of our
lives will be something big.
Have you noticed that we also subdivide and classify sins? We say that
stealing a few pennies is petty larceny, but taking a large amount is
grand theft. But in a sense, it is all the same in God's sight. What a
person does with a few cents is the measure of what he will do with
hundreds of dollars if the "gamble" is safe enough.
A bank employee was due for a good promotion. One day at lunch with the
President of the bank, who happened to be standing behind the clerk in
the cafeteria, noticed him slip two pats of better under his slice of
bread so they wouldn't be seen by the cashier. That little act of
dishonesty cost him his promotion. Just ten cents' worth of butter made
the difference. The bank president reasoned that if an employee cannot
be trusted in little things he cannot be trusted at all. If you want to
become great, be faithful in that which is least.
THOUGHT: What we do with a little is a good measure of what we will do
with a lot.
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