“God is
transfiguring the world right this very moment through us
because God believes in us and
because God loves us.”
~Desmond Tutu
We live in
a strange world,
That
doesn’t order to taste,
Our
visions heaven-sent of change,
Because
God doesn’t work in haste.
The
changes God engineers,
Are
smaller than we’d expect,
The
spiritual imperative is patience,
That we are to
erect.
There are sceptics who would cite
there are no changes to the world that could be attributed to God, as the world
continues to get darker and darker. And whilst, in some cases, it appears that
the world is getting darker, in many, many cases the Light of the World, which
is the love of Jesus, is shone in through the smallest and most effective
sacrificial gifts. These occur all the time.
One At A Time – And All In Good Time
As in the seasons and phases known
to change and growth, those we don’t ordinarily observe because they happen too
slowly for our senses to perceive, God changes the world in slow ways, one at a
time, and all in good time.
But many of these one-at-a-time
activities are occurring simultaneously, and have done ever since creation’s
first day.
Our observances of the change God
can, and does, affect in the world depend on our sight of faith. If we will choose
blindness, to ignore what can actually be seen, we will see nothing positive
over the earth, or certainly nothing attributable to God.
Yet, God is changing things every
day, every moment. God is achieving good through many of his servants who
operate tirelessly but joyously in the privilege of service.
Servants of God are happy with
their little roles. People with little roles make big differences in the
overall scheme of change. They may seem insignificant, and may occasionally
believe their contributions aren’t worthwhile, but God needs them as the world
needs them.
How We Get On Board
Getting on board with God is a
simple as an attitude change. To be able to see the enormous differences that
can be made in little things is the blessing of spiritual sight. Spiritual
sight sees past the quantitative and qualitative things. It doesn’t look for material
evidence. It looks for evidence in love—the only currency of worth; the only eternal
one.
We cannot rate spiritual things,
only God can rate them. This is why we don’t know how valuable our
contributions are in the Kingdom until we reach eternity.
Little things make large
differences in God’s kingdom.
We get on board by just discerning
God’s will for our moments. By doing things in simple obedience we’re led by
God to change our world according to God’s will.
The more we can learn about our
ailing world, the more we will appreciate the truth, and the more we will be
open to hearing the Spirit regarding what we can do.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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