Your Greatest Investment

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I often think it requires more faith to go to Him with small things, than in great trials. We are apt to think He will not take notice of our little difficulties, and feel ashamed to call upon so great and mighty a Being for every trifle. But this thought originates with the pride of our hearts, for in one sense the universe itself and ten thousand such worlds--are trifles to God. 

But when we read that every hair of our head is numbered--what encouragement we have to take everything to Him who alone can deliver us out of all our troubles. I think carrying our little troubles and needs to God, honors Him even more than when we go to Him with greater. 

O what a mercy to be persuaded that whatever may be our circumstances, God is with us, directing and overruling the whole for our good and for His own glory. To know that He is ours--and that we are His. To draw near in faith, telling Him all that is in our hearts, conscious of having the ear and heart of Jehovah towards us. Is not this true, substantial happiness?

"Cast all your care on Him, because He cares for you!" 1 Peter 5:7 

One of my preacher friends told me not to bother God with small things.  Old, totally blind, living alone, I'm glad that God is aware of the small aggravations in my life.  It is the small foxes that spoil the vines. (Sng Of Solm 2:15)  Small aggravations, small pains, small employees, small neighbors never be surprised at the smallness of those you trust. 

Once, long ago, when there was common sense, when schools educated instead of entertained I remember my high school principal holding up a very large sheet of white poster board.  Right in the  middle, he had put a very small black dot.  He called on several people in the class to tell him what they saw on the sheet he was holding.  Each one said they saw a small dot, here was his object lesson, "one little mistake on a large field of good things and everyone sees or remembers that small mistake no matter how much good you have done otherwise, how much white area is available."  In my long life I have known so many older people, doing so much good in the community and even their church.  But, back in their youth there was some small sin which everyone remembers and brings up, often, even at their time of death.  All the good they did otherwise, even the forgiveness they had from God and their fellow man was forgotten but their one little sin remembered. 

It is the small things...that pin hole in the roof which lets in so much water, that small pin hole in a tire.  Recently, the largest city in South America, Sao Paulo, Brazil was totally blacked out because of a small insect getting into a electric transmission.  It took many years for men to peer into a microscope and there he found such small animals, one or two of which, multiplying, can cause such deadly disease...death. 

People would think this old blind man crazy but I lay my hands on equipment, appliances, many inanimate mechanisms which are sick and ask God to heal them.  God understands how much trouble I have attempting to get things fixed I still believe in the healing touch of hands.  The Christian believes in the supernatural.  In supernatural ability, God can heal, help, and mend even small things.