{"id":2949,"date":"2019-07-02T03:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2019-07-02T03:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:10:30","slug":"im-too-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Too Little!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We sometimes think that we have very little to offer, or that we don\u2019t amount to much. But just listen to this story\u2026.<\/p>\n

A little boy was pushing his way through the crowd, wanting to see a miracle. He had heard about this preacher who did miracles, and he badly wanted to see one. But there were so many people crowding around the teacher listening to what He was saying, and the sick people were pushing forwards so that they could be touched by Him.\u00a0 The hours passed by.<\/p>\n

It had been a long hot day and\u00a0 the people were starting to get hungry and tired. The little boy wondered what was going to happen next. He was getting hungry himself, but he had been so busy listening to and watching everything that was happening he had almost forgotten the five small buns and two little fish he had in his bag.<\/p>\n

Then he heard the Master say to His friends, \u201cHow do you think we should feed all these people?\u201d<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t seem to have a clue. \u201cPerhaps we should send them away to get something to eat\u201d, one of them suggested.<\/p>\n

Our little boy nudged Andrew, one of the friends, and said, \u201cLook, the Master can have these little buns and fish to feed the people\u201d as he gave them to him. Andrew was almost ashamed to show Jesus what he had. \u201cWell, we\u2019ve got these five buns and two small fish, but how will they feed such a crowd?\u201d he asked as he gave them to Him.<\/p>\n

Jesus didn\u2019t hesitate as He took them. He gave thanks to God for them as though it was some great banquet He had in front of Him, and then started to break the buns and fish apart. They just kept going. More and more! He handed the pieces out to His friends and told them to distribute them to the people who were now sitting down on the grass. It was an incredible sight, a giant picnic. Not only was there enough food for everyone, but there were twelve baskets of left-overs too!!<\/p>\n

Our little boy had wanted to see a miracle, and now he had not only seen one of the greatest miracles of all time, but he was part of it too!\u00a0 He hadn\u2019t done the miracle, but the Master had, with what he had given Him. If he hadn\u2019t parted with his five buns and two little fish, he would not have seen it nor been part of it!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same for us today. If we don\u2019t hand over to God the little that we have, we won\u2019t see any miracles done, let alone be part of them. How much of the small talent that we have, \u00a0do we give to Him for His glory? God uses the little things to accomplish what He intends to do all along.<\/p>\n

Goliath was a large giant of a man, yet he was killed by a teenage boy with a slingshot. Gideon took a walled city at God\u2019s command with just three hundred men armed with\u2026lamps and trumpets!<\/p>\n

When God sent His Son into the world, he didn\u2019t use a mature older woman to care for this precious baby. He chose an unknown teenager who loved Him (God) with all her heart and who was prepared to give up her reputation, and maybe even her future husband who she was engaged to.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not our talent that counts in serving God, it\u2019s what God does with what we give back to\u00a0 Him. He takes the little that we have and makes something big of that. We must learn to quit holding on to our lunch thinking it is too small to be of any value!!<\/p>\n

PS\u2026.You can read these accounts in the Bible to get the full story\u2026\u2026Matthew 14:14-21;\u00a0 Mark 6:34-44;\u00a0 Luke 9:11-17;\u00a0 John 6:1-14<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sometimes think that we have very little to offer, or that we don\u2019t amount to much. But just listen to this story\u2026. A little boy was pushing his way through the crowd, wanting to see a miracle. He had heard about this preacher who did miracles, and he badly wanted to see one. But … Continue reading “I’m Too Little!”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[524,525,523],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-gods-use","tag-miracles","tag-small"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-Lz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}