Bigger Is Not Always Better

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

The world gravitates to the spectacular, to the “AWESOME!” God is certainly capable of the spectacular. Let’s be honest, the Bible is filled with the awesome works of God. Yet He most often works through the ordinary or what may seem to us to be insignificant.

Think about Gideon and his battle with the Midianite oppression. God intentionally trimmed his army down to just 300 soldiers, when there were many more men available. God preferred to demonstrate His power through the “small” rather than the “large.”

When Jesus chose His first disciples, He didn’t go the best Rabbinical school in the country and choose Phi Beta Kappa’s. No! He chose regular, ordinary men—fishermen to be exact—not high up in the social strata of the day.

When the time was right to send the Messiah into the world, He didn’t come by means of a kingly palace. He was born in a cave, wrapped in strips of cloth, and laid in a feeding trough.

Christ followers often fall into the trap of “the bigger, the better.” A better view is God’s view: God is interested in the heart; He is pleased with obedience.

For who has despised the day of small things? (Zechariah 4:10)

Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.  (1st Samuel 15:22)