Yesterday in church, Bob talked about doing our small part of a big dream. Imagine being one of the twelve spies chosen to go spy out the Promised Land? You literally got a glimpse into the future!
But they also had a limited and specific goal. They weren’t told to go and make judgment of the land that God was giving them, here is all Moses told them to do:
"Go up through the Negev and on into the hill country. 18 See what the land is like and whether the people who live there are strong or weak, few or many. 19 What kind of land do they live in? Is it good or bad? What kind of towns do they live in? Are they unwalled or fortified? 20
How is the soil? Is it fertile or poor? Are there trees on it or not?
Do your best to bring back some of the fruit of the land." Numbers 13
That’s the thing about being a small part of something really big… you don’t know how God is going to use your small piece for His glory.
Imagine yourself as one of the twelve. For 40 years your family has wondered the desert waiting to have access to the Promised Land. For your whole life you’d heard, "The Promised Land is going to rock!" In days of manna and no television you can imagine that dreaming of the Promised Land had become quite a past time. And your job was to go into the Promised Land and tell the people what was there. Your job was actually pretty small. Compared to the job of starting towns and building farms… this was a cinch. But you also played a part in something much larger.
It doesn’t matter what you do in life. If you know Christ and are part of a church… whether or not you agree to it, you are playing a small role in something much larger as you represent Christ in every facet of your life.
So, where you live and in what you do… how are you doing? Are you doing your job or are you failing?
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