I wrote yesterday about our youngest grandson’s Junior Novice football team. These little boys in big football helmets were playing their hardest, running plays, tackling ball carriers, making touchdowns. They were excited when they scored, even though the only ones keeping score were the parents in the stands.
The parents were excited also. They cheered and shouted whenever the defense made a stop and whenever the offense ran a play. It didn’t matter that all that was being done by 7-8-year-old boys, it could have been the Super Bowl by the way they rooted for the team.
Zechariah 4:4 told us not to despise the day of small things. Small things can become great things in the hands of God. Remember Daniel chapter 2? King Nebuchadnezzar saw a great dazzling statue that was awesome in appearance. It had parts of gold and silver, bronze and clay. It represented the great kingdoms of the world to come that began with Babylon. (Read Daniel 2 today)
There was one other part of this vision. A little rock. A stone. The rock was cut out from the mountain but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet and broke it to pieces and the pieces were blown away by the wind. That little rock, that small stone, then became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
Jesus, the Rock, had 12 disciples, one of whom betrayed him. They, along with the Apostle Paul who was recruited by the Risen Jesus on the Road to Damascus, changed the known world in one generation. Jesus’ followers are still changing the world. Most of them are small by the world’s standards, yet we are not to despise the small … because in God’s economy, small things can do great things.
Dan 2:44-45: “The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed…. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain.” [NIV]
