Series: Youth for Jesus
Number: Vol. 9, No. 3
“For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the LORD, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.” (Zech 4:10NKJV)
Who is speaking here in our opening text? It is God. And what is He saying? He is saying that no one should ever despise whatever He is working on, simply because it looks small or little. That is because His Spirit will see to it that what He is doing, however small or little it may seem in the eyes of men, is completed in such a way that there will be much rejoicing over it.
Now, as we see in our opening text, it was a prince of Judah called Zerubbabel that this word first came to. And it came to him to encourage him not to look down on what he was doing in building the temple of the Lord as something insignificant.
But why would he look down on the temple he was leading his people to build as insignificant or small? One main reason was that he was must have been comparing it with the temple Solomon built. The temple Solomon built was indeed great and magnificent. And to compare it with what Zerubbabel and his people were building at the time would be like to compare day and night. In fact, when the foundation of their own temple was laid, those who were privileged to see Solomon’s temple could only weep aloud. (Cf. Ezra 3:10-12)
Nonetheless, what God was really concerned about was not the magnificence of His temple but the degree to which it was able to serve His purpose. The temple Solomon built was indeed magnificent, as I pointed out already. Yet God handed it over to the Babylonians to destroy it. Why? It was no longer serving His purpose.
So, even if what we are doing is great and lofty in the eyes of men, as long as it is not serving God’s purpose and bringing Him pleasure, He will cast it aside as useless. But if what we are doing is little and yet is serving His purpose, He will give increase to it Himself so that it will be able to serve His purpose even more.
Therefore, however small or little what you are doing in life may be in your eyes or in the eyes of others, as long as God is able to use it to bless or touch someone’s life, don’t despise it. And don’t allow anyone to talk you into despising it, regardless of what they may say. That is because the Spirit of God is able to take that which appears small or little today in the eyes of men and make it a wonder for the world to see.
Then, in closing, be very careful of comparing whatever you are doing with what others are doing. It is a sure way to discourage yourself or to begin to think of yourself more highly than you ought to. And that will cause you to limit the move of God in your life and through what you are doing in very serious ways.
So, watch yourself.
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