Actors like to say, “there are no small parts, only small actors.” It’s a great bit of encouragement: do your best, even if you have a small part, or no part. If you’re an extra in the crowd scenes, be the best extra you can be. If you’re riding the bench, do it well. If your job is to handle laundry for the actors, or to prepare gear for athletes, or to sell tickets to an event you’d rather participate in—whatever your role, do it to the best of your ability.
Jesus was encouraging too, saying if you are faithful in the small things, God will make you ruler over big things, Matthew 25:23.
Are you faithful over small things? Your attitude? Your thoughts? Your resentment, anger, and hurt emotions? If you give it all to Him and let Him change you, He may begin to give you the larger opportunities that you long for. In Numbers 3 and 4, God designates tasks for all the Levites. He has plans for them. They have duties far beyond simply their own families.
He has duties for us too. He put us here to be SALT and LIGHT.
Are you leading others, lighting the way to God’s best? Do your attitude and your words help slow the decay of the world around you? Do you look for the best in others, and draw out those flavors?
Those are our jobs on earth: light the way, slow the decay, and bring out the best in people.
What can you do today to reach those goals? Be an encourager and a voice of HOPE.
Let God love people through you today!
Read Matthew 25.
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