I was reading something recently and was reminded of the story where a young man was walking along the shore and tossing stranded starfish back into the ocean. Someone watching him stopped and asked him what he was doing? The little boy said he was throwing the starfish back into the water so they could live. The stranger said, the beach is filled with starfish, what you are doing won’t make a difference. The little boy in all of his youthfulness pick up a starfish, threw it back into the water and told the stranger “It made a difference for that one”!
A hallelujah goes right there because this young boy understood that you may not be able to change the entire world, but you can change the entire world for someone.
Reading this story took me back to my own struggles and disappointments while serving Christ. One example is I often consider giving up writing this blog because in my mind I was not seeing high readership and seeing lives changed and people accepting Christ so I felt like a failure. I continuously say I’m about done with this , But God. As soon as I decide to quit God will send that person to leave a seemingly random comment saying how someone needed to hear what God told me to say. Someone I wasn’t expecting will say, I read your posts about “something” and it really helped me. Then I get encouraged and realize that God is using me for exactly what he wants, not what I want. I didn’t start this blog because of me, I started because the word was bubbling out of me and needed a space to be. I started this blog because I needed to write down my experiences, my feelings and my ponderings to keep growing in Christ.
As I read through what I wrote above I realized how much I made this about ME! Everything we do should be about Christ and delivering the word to his people so they could be saved.
““If a man has 100 sheep, but one of the sheep is lost, what will he do? He will leave the other 99 sheep on the hill and go look for the lost sheep. Right? And if he finds the lost sheep, he is happier about that one sheep than about the 99 sheep that were never lost. I can assure you, in the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little children to be lost.”
Matthew 18:12-14 ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/mat.18.12-14.ERV
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