Luke 16:10: He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much, and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much.
The service of the Lord is a great calling for all who seek to work in His field. We are all required to do our level best in this Great Commission we have been given. (Matthew 28:16-20) Yet the work of the Lord does not only start at the big crusades and camp meeting where thousands are called to the Lord. The truest work starts in our daily lives- in the mundane tasks that we are faced with each day. It is in these tasks that we are put onto the training ground to be the Great Commission leaders who do their level best for the service of the Lord.
“The Lord is testing and proving us to see what sort of timbers or attributes we are bringing into the character building.” Just like the Lord was training the disciples in the feeding of the 5000 (Matthew 14:20) we are being trained today that even the bread crumbs count. It is through the bread crumbs that the baskets will be filled. If we are faithful in the bread crumbs, the small tasks of good that we gave to perform every day, our characters will be shaped to be faithful with the eternal salvation of those around us. The Lord seeks to make our baskets full with His character as we strive to make the whole being wholly His. The small everyday things, as small as a smile to a stranger, will equip us to be ready for the greater task at hand. Let us not neglect the bread crumbs as “the Lord will be glorified in His saints in even the common, temporal things with which they are connected.”
Tapiwa Dete