Fear No Fear

“Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy vessels and the trumpets to sound the alarm in his hand” (Numbers 31:6, MEV). Do the little things really matter? If we do them or not, or if we’re whole-hearted or half, does it matter? The answer is that it depends on what kind of life you want. Do you want a small life? With small blessings and small rewards? Or do you want the kind of life that can only be lived big? If we can’t handle life in the slow lane, we will never successfully pass. No one is going to wave us in. But if we can handle what’s happening to us NOW, then we’ll get waved into a bigger lane and a faster speed. “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much. And he who is dishonest in the least is dishonest also in much” (Luke 16:10, MEV). God doesn’t give to the unproven or the fresh off the cross. There is too much opportunity for us to mess up. Too many chances to make mistakes simply because we don’t know any better. Or because we flat out can’t handle it. I don’t know a single successful minister of the Gospel with a large ministry who says they could have handled it at the beginning. No, they all say they needed the small to learn the skills (and practice what God has given them) they needed for the large things. God grows us. Seed time, growth, and THEN the harvest. It takes time. And it takes FAITHFULNESS in the small. Phinehas was righteously indignant over something, showing ZEAL for God. He was commended for it. What happened? Now he’s leading thirteen thousand men to battle and praise (a thousand of them were Levites who didn’t fight). He was faithful in the small and got to live big. Do you want the ABUNDANT life you’ve been promised is available to you (John 10:10)? Be faithful in whatever He brings your way. You’ll go from seed to sprout to bush to tree to giant redwood in HIS time, it will also be right and beat for you.