I got 5 sets for Christmas from Mom and Dad.
Yes I'm 21, yes they were made more for kids, no that doesn't really matter to God.
He uses the little things.
The title of the last one we heard was "Something Significant".
Wow, God keeps pounding me.
It was about Trent wanting to do something BIG for God!
He wants to be in the church play so that he can make an impact on peoples lives. But he didn't get a part, so the the Pastor said he could help set up chairs.
But that's not a BIG thing, that's not going to change any one's life!
So Wit tries to get across to him that it's just as much the little things as the big things.
You all were kids once so I have no doubt that at least most of you have heard Odyssey a few times growing up. So you should know what happens next. :) Wit sends him on an imagination station adventure.
Throughout the adventure, Trent meets a young lady who is getting ready for a Bible study. She asks him to help her set up... =]
Then he meets a young girl in India who gets chained to a pole, and helps save her along with a lady by the name of Amy.
Then he ends up on a WWII army ship with a guy named Jack. The ship is sunk, the guys made it to shore but are stuck without food for 6 days.
He goes back to the first place where the girl is now working on a song for a book that her and her sister are writing. A book no one's ever heard of, a song that is very short. The girl doesn't think it is very important. But when she has Trent look at the words he reads, "Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong."
He knows the song!
Then he ends up back in India, at Amy's home. He asks if the little girl got away safely.
And there she is, at the home of Amy Carmichael.
He asks Amy why she came there, and she tells him there was a song when she was younger that she heard, that really changed her life. (You can guess the song I'm sure.)
And now he is back on the Island where the guys are rescued. They knew it was God that saved them, so they say they should sing a song. One of the guys breaks out in song, "Jesus Loves Me..." Then the native guy that helped to save them started in singing with them. They wonder how he knows it. It was a song that a missionary taught him.
In the end he sees that this one little song, from a girl that no one really thinks about, (though everyone knows her song) has changed lives.
Many of us think of Jesus loves me as a little kids song. Such simple words, and we've all known it for forever.
But the words are wonderful it you take a moment to stop and remember them.
So, what am I learning though all this?
I'm trying to convince myself that it's the little things just as much as the big.
Going from being in the Philippines, doing outreaches, helping people, being able to see the effect on their lives. Coming back to, filling the fire, sweeping the floor, scrubbing the tub, moving the snow...
How little it all seems. So hum drum. I mean, where's the glory in all of that?
Hmm, being of help to Mom and Dad, both of whom are not at their best right now?
Well, yes. Though I've not been doing a very good job of it, and I need to work on that.
As many of you know, I've been wanting to go over and help my sister Jennifer in Zambia for a few months beginning this March. Well, that's a ways off , yes, but it's not looking as hopeful as it once was. There is much going on that may postpone that trip indefinitely...
I just have to wait and see what the Lord's will is for that.
There are so many things I could go into, but right now I feel kind of like I'm at a stand still.
In that way I fear Lydia and my stories are similar.
I feel I grew so much over in the Philly's, that to be back at home is like being stuffed back in the same old little box.
But what next?
For now I guess, I must be faithful in the little things. For there is just as much import in them as in the big things. Then, and only then, God will send the bigger things.
There is so much more I could say, but for now...
Praying,
BSBT
