Volume 17: Don’t Despise Small Beginnings

DON’T DESPISE SMALL BEGINNINGS

Today’s devotional is shorter than usual. That isn’t because there is less to say. It’s because some of God’s greatest lessons come in the smallest packages. Today’s devotional is meant to illustrate exactly that.

GOD SEES WHAT WE OVERLOOK

Throughout Scripture, God repeatedly accomplishes extraordinary things through what the world considers ordinary. Jesus compared the Kingdom of Heaven to a mustard seed—a seed so small it was easily overlooked, yet it grew into something remarkably large.

He multiplied a boy’s lunch to feed thousands. He commended a widow’s two mites above the extravagant gifts of the wealthy. David walked onto a battlefield carrying nothing more than a sling and five smooth stones. Heaven has never measured greatness by size, only by faithfulness.

THE BEGINNING IS PART OF THE MIRACLE

We celebrate the harvest but often forget the seed. We admire the oak while overlooking the acorn. We remember Goliath’s fall, but we rarely consider the lonely hillsides where David learned to trust God as he tended sheep.

Every oak was once an acorn. Every harvest was once a seed. Every testimony was once a step of faith. Every great work of God began with someone willing to take the first step.

DON’T MISS WHAT GOD IS STARTING

This devotional is intentionally brief because I’m practicing what it preaches. Never confuse small with insignificant. God often wraps His greatest work in the smallest beginnings. “For who hath despised the day of small things?” (Zechariah 4:10).

Whether you’re starting a new family, planting a church, launching a small business, starting a new job, moving to a new city, or stepping onto a school campus for the first time, remember this: God has always done His greatest work through humble beginnings. Abraham left home with only a promise. Ruth arrived in Bethlehem as a widow with nothing but hope.

The first disciples were a small group of ordinary men who would one day turn the world upside down. Never let the size of your beginning determine the size of your faith.

If God is in your beginning, you never have to fear the ending, because the Alpha and the Omega is already there. Take the first step. God already knows where it leads.