Small Thing

Friday, January 6

Small Thing

And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. 2 Kings 4:3

It may be something small. It may seem insignificant. It may not even make sense. But obedience is the key. If we are obedient and allow God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven then we will truly be able to experience His breakthrough in our lives.

In 2 Kings 4, in response to the widow’s cry, Elisha instructed her to grab jars. The widow did not question Elisha’s instruction. Instead she responded with obedience. When our will bends to His will I surrender to Him, and this allows His blessings into my life, with nothing blocking them.

So many times I hear His voice whispering to me to do this, or go that way. And I think it’s such a small thing. Surely I can get by without doing it. Then I discovered that He was right in the first place. I needed to do that ‘small thing‘ in order for Him to break through in my life.

Many of the miracles of Jesus happened as people followed His simple instructions; for example filling the water pots at the wedding at Cana (John 2:7), or making the crowd sit down, at the feeding of the five thousand (Luke 9:14). And in the Old Testament God told the widow to fill the jars with oil (2 Kings 4:4), and Naaman to wash in the river Jordan. (2 Kings 5:10).

I believe that God tells each one of us to do simple things. As we bend our wills to His and obey Him we’ll find that breakthrough we’re looking for.