In the inside of my garage, there are four different types of sweepers and one wet-dry vac. When I looked at them acting like they were holding up one of the walls of the garage, I said to myself, “How many sweepers does it take to sweep the house.” We surely have enough now. But I thought back to years ago, during the mid-1980’s and we did not have a good sweeper. I take that back. I had three teenage children and one elementary child at the time, and they became my, dare I say, “willing sweepers.” It was a time when every room, but the kitchen and the bathroom had carpet, unlike today where you have wooden floors in most rooms. So, every Saturday, the “willing sweepers” and I, on our hands and knees, we would pick up any debris we could see off the carpet with our hands, room by room, foot by foot inch by inch. We called it “clicking” the floors. The two toddlers were not old enough to help, not yet. There day would come. Smile! No, laugh, because I am, and I’m sure when my adult kids tell the story they will have you rolling on the floor with laughter.
Now there is something noteworthy in my transparency. You see, we used what we had to get the job done! We did not opt to do nothing because we did not have the perfect sweeper. We did not come up with any excuses not to do the work. We used what we had, and we did the work.
If you go to a small church or if you go to a mega church, do the work with what you have. If you have a small group of willing workers, a core of faithful people who seem to be involved in everything, do the work with what you have. If you belong to a medium size church, but a concentric circle diagram of members reveals that only a few people are dedicated to the work of ministry, do the work with what you have.
If you have more, do more. If you don’t have more than others, do more than you think you can do with your small means. You know what one of my biblically proven sayings is by now, don’t you? Well, if not, let me repeat it. God can take small means and bring about great results.
Do the work with what you have! Let’s get to “clicking” for the kingdom! Have a great day! Be blessed!
“Moses objected, ‘They won’t trust me. They won’t listen to a word I say. They’re going to say, ‘God? Appear to him? Hardly!’ So, God said, ‘What’s that in your hand?’ “A staff.’ ‘Throw it on the ground.’ He threw it. It became a snake; Moses jumped back—fast! God said to Moses, ‘Reach out and grab it by the tail.’ He reached out and grabbed it—and he was holding his staff again. ‘That’s so they will trust that God appeared to you, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God then said, ‘Put your hand inside your shirt.’ He slipped his hand under his shirt, then took it out. His hand had turned leprous, like snow. He said, ‘Put your hand back under your shirt.’ He did it, then took it back out—as healthy as before. ‘So if they don’t trust you and aren’t convinced by the first sign, the second sign should do it. But if it doesn’t, if even after these two signs they don’t trust you and listen to your message, take some water out of the Nile and pour it out on the dry land; the Nile water that you pour out will turn to blood when it hits the ground.’ Moses raised another objection to God: ‘Master, please, I don’t talk well. I’ve never been good with words, neither before nor after you spoke to me. I stutter and stammer.’ God said, ‘And who do you think made the human mouth? And who makes some mute, some deaf, some sighted, some blind? Isn’t it I, God? So, get going. I’ll be right there with you—with your mouth! I’ll be right there to teach you what to say.’ He said, ‘Oh, Master, please! Send somebody else!’ God got angry with Moses: ‘Don’t you have a brother, Aaron the Levite? He’s good with words, I know he is. He speaks very well. In fact, at this very moment he’s on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he’s going to be glad. You’ll speak to him and tell him what to say. I’ll be right there with you as you speak and with him as he speaks, teaching you step by step. He will speak to the people for you. He’ll act as your mouth, but you’ll decide what comes out of it. Now take this staff in your hand; you’ll use it to do the signs.’ (Exodus 4:1-17 The Message Bible)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King