This title is a friend’s response to being told that I am to be ordained soon.
God can do big things indeed!
I am small, but God is mighty. He has consistently moved in, through and for me in ways that I could not expect. On this journey and adventure with him God has closed and opened doors. He has provided the resources he knew I needed and has faithfully sustained me. God has made a way, sometimes in the wilderness. He has been the one in whom I can trust.
God can do big things with even our small offerings. When we give ourselves to God and his work, including our imperfections, then we can expect God to move!
I find myself at this point on my journey with God because he moved through a small local church. They offered their resources- time, support and equipping. They allowed me to explore and serve. I experienced an authentic community through hospitality, generosity, joy and struggle. God’s presence and leading was gifted through this family and the local small community too.
I encourage you to find out about your smaller local churches. What’s going on? What are they doing amidst the local community? How could you pray for them or join in? What are your gifts and what could you offer? Could you gift them simply with your attentive presence?
Do not underestimate what God can do in the smallness and with you too! God wants to be closer to you, to build you up in humility and through those around you.
God’s doing big things with the small things. He’s raising up those who don’t look like worldly leaders, he’s renewing the wastelands and the desert spaces too.
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-20
God’s restoring, mighty, impacting presence is all around, we just need to look in all the right places!
How is God moving in you currently? How is God prompting you? How can you be more open to him? God is speaking to us, nudging us and cheering us on in our everyday ordinary lives and communities, if only we humbly pay attention.
