Little and Little part 4
The smallest spark can start the biggest fire. A Holy Ghost wildfire that burns out of control. With love. Consuming everything in its path and feeding on itself (Himself) and growing and growing and growing. I'm telling you, sometimes you don't even realize how big the small things are. So while I started this Rant series talking about adding a little here and a little there, line upon line, precept upon precept, I want to move even more into the giving it away aspect. Because that's what this life is all about; receiving and RELEASING the love of God. Giving away what you've got. Because that's what love is; giving everything you have and everything you are. Laying your life down for your friends. And realizing that you destroy your enemies by MAKING them your friends. Killing everybody you meet with kindness. Even if it's just giving a cookie to a hungry co-woker. Sometimes the smallest things are the biggest things. Sometimes the least you can do is the most you can do. And sometimes you can change someone's whole world with a tiny act of kindness. So don't despise small beginnings. Rome wasn't built in a day. You have to start somewhere. When God called Moses to square off against the most powerful man in the world (at the time), He asked Moses, "What do you have in your hand?" He didn't wait until Moses thought he was ready. His perfect timing MADE Moses ready. Even when Moses thought he was totally and completely in over his head. Even when Moses tried his hardest to get out of it. God knows the way because He IS the Way (and the Truth, and the Life). He knows what's best for us. Which is why He gave us His only beloved Son. He wanted the best for us, so He gave the best to us. And from that moment on we had everything we would ever need. From that moment on we could stop looking for love in all the wrong places. Because from that moment on the Holy Spirit took up abode in us. The Spirit of Truth leading and guiding us into all truth. One step at a time. Showing us how to love by showing us how we are loved. Showing us who we are in Christ by showing us who Christ is in us. And God isn't worried about the length of our maturation process. He is longsuffering. He has sworn to NEVER leave us nor forsake us. When we stumble, He helps us up. And after a while we learn to walk in newness of life and then He HOLDS us up. He KEEPS us from falling. So that what's inside us--love--can come out of us. Naturally. By little and little... and then by greater and greater. That spark starts a fire. That mustard seed blooms into the biggest tree of all. The Tree of Life. There's a lot to be said in the Bible about the seed. But what I think I'm trying to say today is that when a seed is planted... a tree of that same kind grows. When LOVE is planted, the Tree of Life grows. And then the Fruit of the Spirit--which is love--blooms. And we, the branches of that tree (or vine), bear that fruit. We give away what we've got because we're no longer trying to get something we think we haven't got. We, again, receive it and release it. Starting small but ending big. Starting with love and ending with love. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. Alpha and Omega. Beginning and end.