We live in a world that says bigger is better

"Revolution is a complete renovation and reopening under new management." – L. L. Levinson

We live in a world that says bigger is better. Here in Texas, we are all pretty convinced that we are actually better because everything IS bigger. Yeah, that's the way it works in the world – but not in God's Kingdom. So rather than make resolutions that are “bigger and better," it's far better to allow your life to be revolutionized by God, who uses the little stuff to do amazing things. Again, let's look at Proverbs 30:

"Four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise:
Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer;
Badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;
Locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks;
A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.” – Proverbs 30:24
Revolutionary Statement Number Eight: Small is big.

History is littered with "little" people who made great contributions. It's almost as if God takes great pleasure in using people who have to beat the odds:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was in a wheel chair.
Homer was blind.
Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf.
John Bunyan spent a good chunk of his life in prison.
Abraham Lincoln was born into abject poverty.
Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph at the age of thirty, was almost totally deaf from the age of eight.
So if you're feeling small or you're feeling handicapped, you're in good hands – God's hands. He specializes in loving people like us and then working through us for big… or small… things.

Father, renovate my thinking, and open my mind to the way that You work. Take the focus off of me and the size of my contribution, and let me fix my eyes and my hope on You and who You are in me today. Amen.