No offering is too small.
What? Yep. This post is too all of those who need to look the lies in their life dead in the eyes today and say I do matter, I was created with a purpose, and my love, my life, my resources are not too small to make a difference. That is, if it is an offering out of obedience...if it is a self-righteous feel good pick-me up...then it might be too small.
How often have our fears, our insecurities, and our feelings of inadequacy worked together to quickly build a wall blocking us from serving, from investing? How often have you not given at all because you felt like your offering was too small? What can my $5 possibly do? How is my volunteering going to transform my community?
Quite honestly, not a whole lot. That is, if it's just you. But, if it is all of us, and it's in God's kingdom ....well, walls are going to fall. I challenge you in the moments you're facing your wall of lies saying you have nothing to give...to stand your ground, take a step forward and knock down that wall of lies by investing what you have anyways. God has given you everything you need to be obedient today.
I've discovered, in the kingdom of God's goodness, we are asked to invest. We are allowed the privilege of partnering in an amazing movement! We are asked to invest our hearts, our prayers, our time, our ideas, our energy, our resources, our love. So, how tragic is it when we allow our feelings to hinder us from investing? We miss out on being floored as we see God's glory revealed. Do we really believe God that He is big enough to do something with our mustard seed of faith?
When we underestimate the gifts that God has given us...which can be ANYTHING from a heart full of love to an extra room in our house, we become a hinderance to the movement of God. It's in the moments that we allow fear to keep us from offering someone a ride(what's the big deal anyways?), walking over to our neighbors and introducing ourselves, smiling at a stranger, starting a conversation with that person next to you, giving your server that extra 2 dollars you want to hold on to...that we say with our actions we believe what we do doesn't really matter. When we don't believe we matter, we act like what we do doesn't matter, and we lose. We lose out on our heart being transformed, we lose out on our love for others growing, we lose out on a lesson in faith, we lose out on a blessing.
So when you "know" you're not powerful...invest. When you only have $3 to give...invest. When you feel helping someone with their groceries can't possibly change the world...invest.
When you invest even when we don't necessarily "feel called to" we create a movement. As we empower others to believe that the way they invest their words, time, and love matter, we become a movement. As everyone invests what they think is too insignificant to matter, we become the body of Christ, living and active. If each person gives what they have...well, you do the math...
If you don't have a passion...if you don't know where to start...invest in what is around you..."for where your heart, invest your life"(thanks Mumford & Sons)
So, without further ado....invest. Your offering is only too small if you don't give it.
What? Yep. This post is too all of those who need to look the lies in their life dead in the eyes today and say I do matter, I was created with a purpose, and my love, my life, my resources are not too small to make a difference. That is, if it is an offering out of obedience...if it is a self-righteous feel good pick-me up...then it might be too small.
How often have our fears, our insecurities, and our feelings of inadequacy worked together to quickly build a wall blocking us from serving, from investing? How often have you not given at all because you felt like your offering was too small? What can my $5 possibly do? How is my volunteering going to transform my community?
Quite honestly, not a whole lot. That is, if it's just you. But, if it is all of us, and it's in God's kingdom ....well, walls are going to fall. I challenge you in the moments you're facing your wall of lies saying you have nothing to give...to stand your ground, take a step forward and knock down that wall of lies by investing what you have anyways. God has given you everything you need to be obedient today.
I've discovered, in the kingdom of God's goodness, we are asked to invest. We are allowed the privilege of partnering in an amazing movement! We are asked to invest our hearts, our prayers, our time, our ideas, our energy, our resources, our love. So, how tragic is it when we allow our feelings to hinder us from investing? We miss out on being floored as we see God's glory revealed. Do we really believe God that He is big enough to do something with our mustard seed of faith?
When we underestimate the gifts that God has given us...which can be ANYTHING from a heart full of love to an extra room in our house, we become a hinderance to the movement of God. It's in the moments that we allow fear to keep us from offering someone a ride(what's the big deal anyways?), walking over to our neighbors and introducing ourselves, smiling at a stranger, starting a conversation with that person next to you, giving your server that extra 2 dollars you want to hold on to...that we say with our actions we believe what we do doesn't really matter. When we don't believe we matter, we act like what we do doesn't matter, and we lose. We lose out on our heart being transformed, we lose out on our love for others growing, we lose out on a lesson in faith, we lose out on a blessing.
So when you "know" you're not powerful...invest. When you only have $3 to give...invest. When you feel helping someone with their groceries can't possibly change the world...invest.
When you invest even when we don't necessarily "feel called to" we create a movement. As we empower others to believe that the way they invest their words, time, and love matter, we become a movement. As everyone invests what they think is too insignificant to matter, we become the body of Christ, living and active. If each person gives what they have...well, you do the math...
If you don't have a passion...if you don't know where to start...invest in what is around you..."for where your heart, invest your life"(thanks Mumford & Sons)
So, without further ado....invest. Your offering is only too small if you don't give it.
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