Jesus
told us little things are actually big things. He said, “He who is faithful in
a very little thing is faithful also in much” (Luke 16:10). Sometimes God will
give us something small as a test to see how trustworthy we’ll be in
handling it.
Martha
Berry founded a school for needy children in 1902. She once asked Henry
Ford (owner of the Ford Motor Company) for a million dollars to help her
school. He didn’t donate the huge amount she requested, but gave her a dime. Instead
of being insulted, she accepted the dime and bought peanuts for her
school children to plant.
They
harvested the peanuts and used it to plant a larger field. Eventually they
harvested enough peanuts to buy a piano for their music students. Martha wrote
a letter to Mr. Ford telling him how they had used his dime to grow enough
peanuts to buy a piano. Ford was so impressed by her faithfulness with the
dime that he gave her school a million dollars! (Making
Today Count for Eternity, p.149).
Don’t
gripe about your insignificant job or the small amount of money you handle. God's watching to see what you’ll do with it. “For who has despised the day of
small things…they are the eyes of the Lord which scan to and fro
throughout the whole earth” (Zech. 4:10).
Martha
died in 1942 and never saw the future
of her little school, which is now Berry College in Georgia. You may never see
on earth what your faithfulness will produce in the future. But if you’ll faithfully
manage your little things on earth, the Lord promises to give you something really
big in heaven. www.makinglifecount.net
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BIBLE STUDY “Little
Things God will Reward in Heaven”
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