April 18, 2011

Yesterday was Sunday School and church, and after lunch at Cenex we were home and had a rest.  The house is ready for Dan and Vicki and now we start a new week.

Your Big-and-Small World


"If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious
talk, and if you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs
of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will
 become like the noonday."

- Isaiah 58:9-10

It's a big world out there that needs changing. It's a small world near you that
 needs changing, too.

You have to get the children off to school today and help evangelize the Muslim
world. You have to type a letter to the gas company and feed the starving hordes
 in East Africa. You have to buy a new car and stop abortion. The faucet in the
sink needs a new washer and the capitol in Washington needs new congressmen.

You have to get your driver's license renewed and the church around the world renewed.
You have to go to your son's football match and go preach the gospel to the poor
 in Indonesia. An insurance claim needs to be filed; a claim on lost souls must
also be made. You have to go to the cleaners, drive by the bank, stop at the gas
 station, and stop pornography.

Whether it's the big world out there or the small world just beyond your backyard
fence, God has work for you to do. It's demanding, it has to be done, and many are
depending on you, whether it's your toddler or the child you sponsor through a relief
agency, your husband or the itinerant evangelist in Uganda who travels from village
to village sharing Christ.

Our world is desperate for help and hope. But take heart: Your prayers and practical
action make a dent, a big dent in your small world and a small dent in the big one.

Use me, Lord, in big ways and small. Help me make a difference in Your world.