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Despise Not The Small Things

I have always enjoyed “Good news, bad news” stories. I read a story about two buddies who were baseball fanatics. They loved the game. One day they were talking about heaven and they wondered if there would be baseball in heaven. So they hatched a plan. Whoever died first would come back to earth and tell the other if there was baseball in heaven. One day, one of the men died, and true to his word he returned in the middle of the night and woke up his friend and said, “I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. The good news is, there is baseball in heaven. The bad news is, you’re pitching tomorrow.”

The journey to your dream will seem like a good news, bad news rollercoaster. There will be ebbs and flows, ups and downs, prosperous seasons and lean seasons, and one of the keys to reaching your dream is to learn to take care of the small things.

Jesus said in Luke 16:10, "If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones.”

Putting it another way, bloom wherever you are currently planted. On the way to your God-sized dream, do your best at whatever your work is today, because being faithful and fruitful today opens the door for your dreams tomorrow.

Some of you remember the rock band called Van Halen. They would make outrageous demands when they were touring. One of their demands was quite strange. They requested for there to be a bowl filled with M&M’s candy in their dressing room, but all the brown M&M’s had to be removed. Nutty request, right? Lead singer, David Lee Roth explained it this way in his book, “If the M&M request was not met correctly then we would have to line check the entire production and it was a guarantee that we would run into trouble. But if that little thing was taken care of then the bigger things would also be taken care of as well.”

On the way to your God-sized dream, be faithful and fruitful with the little you have today and it will open the door to your tomorrow.

What little thing do you need to improve on in order for God to open the door to bigger things?