What would you consider as your disadvantage? Is there anything you would deem a liability regarding your pursuit to become all that God wants you to be? Do you feel there is a missing ingredient necessary for your recipe of success? I would like to take this opportunity to avert your minds to a truth that should help you deal with the temptation to remain fixated on what is not working around you and count yourself out.
Isaiah 60:22 KJV
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
The above scripture is God’s programme for your life. That which qualifies this group to become a thousand is because they are considered to be little and small. Whatever you count as little and small is useful in the hand of God to make you become a thousand and a strong nation.
Remain small in your own eyes
The scriptures declare that God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty (1 Corinthians 1:27). There is a reason for the emphasis of humility and meekness in the Bible. What Lucifer could not survive is what God is preventing from happening to you. There is something about glory that can make one susceptible to being haughty. I pray that you would catch a glimpse of how God wants to decorate your life with splendour; because without the appreciation and the character of humility, you will blow it.
I am sharing these with you because God is going to make you, who seem small today, a thousand and a strong nation. This is God’s agenda for your life; the conversion of the little to a thousand and the small to a strong nation. Don’t forget what qualifies you in the first place; being small and little. When you become a thousand, don’t forget that you were little. Resist the temptation to throw your weight about. Embracing this mindset should affect how you talk, relate and treat other people irrespective of how low their rank or status may be.
1 Corinthians 12:18-21
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
You are indispensable
I don’t know whether somebody has ever told you I have no need of you. But the Bible says nobody can say that. Even if they have ever said it, it has not been said. The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of you. You are not a luxury good but a necessity. Your relevance is established. God has orchestrated it such that you will be needed. You will not only be wanted; you are needed. I need you and you need me. God has set it in the body to be so. You might be operating from a very disadvantageous position because of how you are thinking, but the knowledge of this truth should not allow whatever you hear intimidate you. God is telling you that nobody can say they don’t need you. Even when you are told you are not needed, refuse to allow such statements to make you function from a position of a victim.
In the subsequent verses of the scripture above, it says, “Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.” We read in the previous verse that it is God who has set these members in the body. And here we see that there are some that are feeble, less honourable and uncomely. This implies that even the feeble, less honourable, and uncomely are set in the body by God. And yet God declares that there is abundant honour comeliness to make up for the little honour and uncomeliness of these members.
Regardless of the disadvantages and limitations you face, don’t rule yourself out. God specialises in making something out of nothing. He bestows abundant honour on those you might think are less honourable. Accept this truth and press on. Your life cannot and should not end in shame. If you will open up to God, there is abundant honour for that segment of your life where you have a disadvantage. Nothing takes God by surprise. If you would trust Him, He will turn everything around for your good. This is why I would like to urge you to embrace humility and meekness for God’s exaltation.
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