Title: Little Action
“It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, and the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”
A poor conductor was conducting the orchestra. However, the conductor's old robe stopped tearing while he was conducting hard work with his arms swinging. The conductor, who did not know what to do, immediately took off his robe and started conducting with a shirt wind as soon as one song was finished. A chuckle was heard from behind. At this time, a nobleman sitting in the front seat silently took off the jacket he was wearing. The people watching this also took off their jackets one by one, and it goes without saying that the concert that day was thrilling and successful. Silently taking off the jacket from the wisdom and warm heart of a nobleman! One small action made the concert a success.
“He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats it separates close friends” (Proverbs 17:9).
One morning, the beach of a village on the beach was covered with starfish. The sea currents swept them away and left them alone. As the days warmed up, all of those starfish would surely die. But the effort to bring them to life seemed so staggering that no one tried to help.
One morning someone was walking on the beach when he found a kid picking up a starfish one at a time and tossing it into the sea. The man said as if pathetic.
"Child, there are thousands of starfish here, and what you're doing seems useless."
The boy picked up another starfish and threw it back into the sea, saying, "But it's useless to this starfish." We may be desperate, wondering how the small actions we are doing can stop the waterfall of the great sin of this age. However, if each one lights a lamp, one day it will become a garden of light where darkness disappears.
There is also a Korean proverb such as "More dust, Mt. Taesan", "A thousand miles begins with one step", "Small water drops gather to form a great river". A small word of kindness and a word of love grows and spreads to brighten society.
The Bible testifies that "the kingdom of heaven is like a small mustard seed" and "if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can command this mountain..." and so on.
In 2 Kings 5:3-6, we can see the record that the small act of the girl who wanted to heal Naaman by showing the Samaritan prophet of an incurable disease leads to God's healing, Naaman's conversion, and leaving the spirit of Rimmon and going to the Lord. Naaman was a famous and great man of his time. So the name of Naaman, who brought the girl and made her a servant, is recorded in the Bible. However, the name of the little girl is nowhere in the Bible. We may not all be great people. It doesn't even have to be. But we can be people of blessing who encourage and comfort those around us.
“He who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little is also unrighteous in much” (Luke 16:10).
It happened in San Francisco on a sunny winter day. A woman driving a red Honda with loads of Christmas presents in the back of her car came to the Bay Bridge toll area. With a smile, she handed the cashier the seven tickets she bought from the vending machine.
"One is mine, and the other six are for the six cars that come after me." The six cars that followed came one by one in front of the toll booth and handed out tolls. The collector told them.
"Some woman in front paid your bills in advance. Have a nice day."
The woman carrying her Honda had read a small sentence on the refrigerator when she was visiting a friend's house before. It was something like this.
"Sometimes in your life practice erratic kindness and crazy good deeds."
There was a corner in that sentence that touched my heart. So she transcribed it in her notebook. Meanwhile, Judy Foreman was driving down a road hundreds of miles from home when she came across the same phrase scrawled in spray paint on the wall of a warehouse. For days and days, the idea did not leave her mind, so Judy ran the long road again and copied the sentence. She explained, writing those words at the end of every letter she sends.
"I thought these words were so beautiful, like a message from heaven."
Her husband, Frank, also liked the sentence, so he put it on the wall of his middle school classroom. However, one of the students was the daughter of an editor for the local newspaper. The editor-in-chief published the sentence in the newspaper, adding that he liked it, but was not sure who said it or what exactly it meant. Two days later, the editor-in-chief was told by Anne Herbert: Anne, a slender blonde woman in her 40s, lived in Marine, one of the richest teenage villages. She was living there, taking care of other people's houses and doing chores from time to time. One day she entered a restaurant and inadvertently wrote the sentence that had been stuck in her mind for days on a table paper stand that was lying on the table. Then the man sitting at the table next to me said, "That's a nice word?" he transcribed it on his paper stand. Anne Herbert advises us. "You can think of these ways. Of course, there could be many more. Give it a try."
Here's what Anne Herbert suggests.
(1) He suddenly visits an old school and paints the walls of the classroom with new paint.
(2) Deliver hot food to urban slums.
(3) Put a little money in the wallet of a poor grandmother with strong self-esteem.
Anne Herbert says:
"Kindness can build up more than violence destroys."
In this way, the sentence spread everywhere.
A Boston woman handed a check to a banker and wrote "Merry Christmas" on the back of the check. A man in St. Louis was driving a car when he was driven by a young woman and the rear bumper of his car was dented. "Oh, no. Don't worry, it's just a little scratched, what?" he says and then walks away waving his hand away. Crazy good deeds are contagious and spread.
There is a saying. It is said that when you smile, you feel energized. Likewise, sometimes indiscriminate kindness eases your own concerns. Because the world is just a little bit better place to live. And if you open your heart and accept it, you will be caught in a pleasant shock. If you're driving during rush hour and someone pays your road toll for you, won't you one day do the same for someone else? Wouldn't you, for example, wave at the other driver at the intersection and smile at a tired official? Secret good deeds also start with one small action. you should try it
There is no such thing as a great action from the start. There are only small acts of great love. Great action, it doesn't start out grand. Just as a small brick is the beginning of the Great Wall, and a stone is the beginning of a great pyramid. Great deeds from the start, no great people. A small dream, a small encouragement, a small love with sincerity grows to make a great action, a great person.
With one word, “Believe in Jesus,” Jesus enters people’s hearts, the church is established, and the gospel is preached. Let us not neglect or ignore the little things and small actions (Isa 7:13, Mic 5:2).
* Prayer: O Lord, who knows everything about us, I lay down my folly of making small and trivial decisions before you at this time. Forgive me for not having you as my master in everything. Be sensitive in the Holy Spirit and act according to the voice of the Holy Spirit. Please do not neglect or ignore even the smallest things and never forget the fact that small things accumulate and make big things happen. May we always practice even a small kindness, a small good deed. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen