How precious you are to us and to the Master. I want you to know....ye are more valuable than many sparrows. Consider the Ravens....and God feedeth them: how much more precious you are than the birds. (Luke 12) For our lives consist not in abundance of the things which we dream of.
This is a message is to you, to your whole family, copy it and give it to each one.
Our enemy beats us over the head with several weapons. One great weapon he kills us with is our past. Not only what "stupid things" we have done, but also things we should have done differently. Know this, we can fail and not be a failure.
We can’t have a "pig mentality" where we keep going back to the mud. To whitewash the pump does not purify the water. We need to go to our hearts and our eyes, and submit them to the Father. We must bury the past, or the past will bury us. God is not a spare tire to just use in a crisis. At best, God is a steering wheel. Yesterday’s failures should not hinder our dreams of today.
Perhaps our greatest enemy is we fail to see God has a plan. Our best joy comes from finding His plan and giving of our effort to accomplish His plan. Many things that appear negative are teaching tools. We act like dead fish floating down stream with the current.
Few people know their purpose. If we don’t have a vision, we will keep stumbling over things that don’t really matter. (Habakkuk 2:2) We should have a plan, know the plan, write a simple directional statement of our hopes and dreams. I can’t get people to do this, so we should at least have discussions about where we are headed and develop criteria to evaluate whether we are putting forth an honest effort towards growth.
Every sport I know has some sort of goal. Every life should have goals. It is better to shoot for the moon and hit the top of the mountain, than it is to land in the mud puddle every time.
Love must see with a telescope into faith, not into a microscope to be critical and judgmental. God will hold us accountable, we can’t avoid this. But we can prepare ourselves to dream, to expect. We are much more than thermometers that rise and fall, up and down, down, down. God designed us to be thermostats, we regulate the temperature by our choices.
We can’t blame others, we are a product of our choices. No person that goes to Hell can point the finger of blame.
You and I are a sum total of our choices. Our choices today, our words, our attitudes, our tempers, our patience will have consequences years down the road of life. Ask David what deciding to play hooky from the battle will cost? 11 Sam. 11:1-3. His choice will cost him several visits to the funeral home and a trail of tears will follow him to his grave, all because of his choice to play hooky. Our choices will also effect others.
So if we don’t see the plan we’ll make unwise choices. We are not aimless drifters, we must have more than nearsighted vision that cries over today, by faith we must look ahead.
I ask you to consider, Why am I here? What am I doing? Could I do more?
The 3rd tool that the enemy uses to knock us into unconsciousness is that I am so little, insignificant, my part doesn’t matter.
Remember the story of the King that had a great feast, he would provide all the meat, vegetables, the fruits, and the desserts. Each servant was to bring the best wine, one quart, and pour it into a 500 gallon wine vat.
A little servant thought my quart can’t matter that much in 500 gallons. So he got there early and poured one quart of water into the huge vat.
All day long over 2000 men poured their quart of their best wine into the vat. In the evening the King blessed the meal.
The king took his silver chalice to the wine vat, the king opened the tap and his chalice filled with water. See, each servant thought they were so little that their little part would not matter, so the vat was filled with just water.
This is the story of the Kingdom, when God’s children see how little they are, and not how big God is. Your family means so much to the Lord. You matter. Your choices matter. Your fruit matters.
Today, I feel you need encouragement. Remember, the Father knows you by your first name. He watches over us. He has a plan for us and our family. Sometimes, life hides His plan form our vision in menial, daily dull drums, and in our littleness we lose our dreaming ability. We must know our smallness can never hide His Greatness. God shares His Glory with no man. God chooses the little.
You are blessed. You own a Bible. You know the most precious name ever spoken. Be encouraged. Can you see how close we are to HOME? God’s plan develops before our very eyes. I know the enemy haunts us in our "stupid littleness," as we see the giants.
Our focus must see beyond the giants that tell us we can’t and by comparison we are so little and limited. God never meant us to see how big the giants are nor how little we are. But our focus must see the PROMISE and how BIG and AWESOME our God is. Our God reigns. He reigns supreme. Do we trust Him supreme?
God does not measure how big your head is. God measures the size of the heart. Our hearts know deep within - that size does not determine value. The Bible warns: despise not the day of small things. God does not measure freedom from failure, he chose many that had failed. Just they knew how to get up.
God is not impressed by personalities, but faithfulness in the little things. (Luke 19:17) words can be so cruel. Press on. Press on. I’m nothing, that can be killing, unless we not only see, I am nothing, that can be a killer, unless we see beyond our
nothingness to see HE IS EVERYTHING. Luke 16:10, He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much.
Your family are rare diamonds. Get up! Get your head up! You are not orphans. You are children of the Most High. We stand in the Gap for those making the wrong choices. Our faith claims them.
God and the Spirit man are VICTORS, NOT VICTIMS. Don’t cry that roses have thorns. Praise Him that roses have blooms. The word is working mightily in us and ours, no matter what the circumstances, no matter what you feel or see. The word is working mightily, for the word of God does the work of God.
So, we are little. That’s ok. He is BIG, GRAND, ALL POWERFUL. Little Diamond had a bad attitude and he could not see God’s plan for him or the world.
Why "Little Diamond" can’t you see God’s plan? Well, Little Diamond you have your face buried in the mud. You can’t see much in the mud.
How do you feel? Cold - wet - and dirty. But God has a plan. Little Diamond said, "I was buried in the mud, until I started thinking: I am mud, but my heart knew I was a Little Diamond".
One day I felt a change come over me. Surely, this is God and His plan. Boy, was I surprised, the mud started pressing me, oh the pain, the heat, the pressure, I was hit on all sides. O God, can you hear me? Did you forget me in the mud? Hey, God, what are you doing to me?
Wait! Wait! I feel different, I am more than a hunk of carbon/coal. Could all this mud and pressure have been God’s plan, and I couldn’t see it? One day I felt a separation from the mud all around me. And a man saw
SONLIGHT reflect off of me. He reached down and picked me up and washed the mud away. Wow, I’m not mud. I’m not coal. I was designed, there was a plan, a purpose, all the time. All that hurt changed me. I’m not bitter, I’m better. The man that washed the mud off saw me sparkle and was amazed for he saw my value, even though I was small.
"Boy this feels good" said the Little Diamond. "I can finally see God’s plan". Now many see me sparkle and say "WOW, see what God has done",......but may I never forget the mud.
It’s not over, the Goldsmith’s hammer and the heat of his torch mold me a bed of gold. Now I sparkle in a beautiful ring and I’ll never know mud anymore.
Little Diamond can finally see clearly. GOD HAD A PLAN ALL THE TIME, AND I’M PART OF HIS PLAN. I may be little, but I’m redeemed from the mud. I was never mud, I was just so nearsighted I could not see His Plan.
Can you see God has a plan, for you are a Little Diamond. God’s hand rest mightily upon you. You are different. God loves variety. Please remember God is building His church. God is building His people. Be patient.
You are not the problem. You and God are the solution. You can, on your knees. You have great potential. His hand rest upon you. Graduation day nears.
It’s high time. Sparkle in the SONLIGHT. His Plan is before us. Dream boy! Dream girl! Dream woman! ASK BIG. But love the little. God does.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Could you pass this on to another
