As I’ve reflected back on this topic, I’ve had the opportunity to think about many of the “small things” that I’ve been privileged to be a part of. I think about a team of construction workers and high school students breaking up rocky soil in Rosarito to build a women’s shelter, a group of retirees working with junior highers to paint a medical clinic in 110 degree heat; I think of the church plants and bible studies on public high school campuses, outreaches on the beach, in the streets, and in prisons; I think about kids struggling to put their fingers in the right places on guitar strings and adults trying to remember chords they forgot decades previous…

I can’t help but smile as I think about how many times there were empty seats, how many times itineraries and good intentions had to be tossed, how many bad chords, out of tune notes, trembling sermons, broken tools, food poisoning, and mosquito bites etc. were endured…

But my heart aches when I think of those who “having put their hand to the plough” did in fact look back… Far too many that I sweated with, laughed with, and cried with until our chests hurt… just stopped… they stopped doing the “small things”.

Probably half of the church plants I’ve been a part of have folded, most likely every bible study group I’ve ever had the privilege of beginning with has long since vanished, some of the construction projects have been abandoned, others are in disrepair and are in need of the work to begin anew, outreaches have long been forgotten… but it was never about all that…

There’s a brightness in the eyes, a stirring in the heart, an excitement of the soul that comes from doing the will of our Father. For far too many the light has been replaced with a dullness… the joy has been extinguished and replaced with monotony.

“He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much” Luke 16:10

Never stop doing the “little things”. Be faithful with whatever the Father has given to you on this day and for this season. For it is not the work but the worship.