No matter your age, there are always people that help keep things moving all around you—often with little to no recognition.
Any organization takes many people to make it run smoothly. Your position wouldn’t be as effective if there weren’t other people fulfilling their responsibilities too.
The same goes for a church. The church is called the body of Christ for a reason. It’s hard for a body to function without all of the parts needed to make it work at full capacity.
But how about in your home? You may be single and think you’re doing everything yourself so this couldn’t apply to you. It does because you got where you are somehow—parents, grandparents, and other family and friends along the way.
If you’re married with children, you definitely do much behind the scenes for others in your house. In the same way, your spouse and sometimes your children will do the same for you.
When young, it’s especially hard though to see and acknowledge those around you who keep your life going. Moms, you clean, cook, and make lunches so your kids won’t go hungry even when they aren’t with you.
In the Bible we read a story about a little boy who had a lunch of five small loaves and two small fish. It would have been enough for him, but before lunchtime he ran into a situation.
Thousands of men had followed Jesus and He stopped so they could hear Him impart some wisdom from God. They were there so long they all were hungry and Jesus told His disciples to feed them.
The men immediately panicked because no one had any food and there wasn’t a way to get enough to feed five thousand plus on such short notice.
Then they saw a little boy who had a small lunch his mother had packed for him earlier that morning. There was no way she could have known the impact such a little behind-the-scenes act would have that day. Her small lunch meant for one was blessed by Jesus and became enough food for thousands of people.
Never underestimate what you do on a daily basis. Everything you do, say, and are is used by God to impact the life of someone else around you—even the most menial and mundane tasks.
So I ask you today, what can God do through you with what you’ve been given?
