THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS

 

EVENING DEVOTION

NOVEMBER 29

 

Zechariah 4:10

…the day of small things?

 

The work of grace in some persons is scarcely discernible.

 

Their faith is so weak.

Their knowledge is so small.

Their love is so feeble.

Their reserve is so great.

 

They cannot open their minds to any one.

They are held in perpetual bondage.

 

Yet they are the Lord’s.

They have light enough to see the emptiness of the world,

  the vileness of sin, and the value of Christ.

 

They long for the enjoyment of his love, and

  desire above all things an interest in him.

 

They cannot say they love him, but they heartily desire to do so.

 

They have many fears and few joys.

 

They say they do not pray, and yet they could not live without going to the throne of grace.

 

In their esteem nothing is to be compared with union to Christ, 

  no people are so happy, 

    as the Lord’s people, and 

      they feel that they would give a world to be like them.

 

It is with such the day of small things,

   but these are the things which accompany salvation.

 

There is the acorn form with the oak will grow.

 

Beloved, do not despise the day of small things;

   God does not; Jesus does not; you should not.

 

The first faint spark of good desire

Which feebly would to heaven aspire,

Its kindler God, will not despise;

The spark into a flame will spread;

And bless’d by him by the smallest seed

Of faith into a tree shall rise.

 

James Smith