Trusting God in the little things

“Our reaction to seemingly unimportant things will be a key indicator in what God will do later in our life. We have a tendency to want to go out and immediately slay giants and win the day and be victorious, while overlooking the fact that we are called into victory where we are. Your victory in the Lord begins wherever you are right now.” ~He used a stone 

I started reading a book called; “He used a stone” which is about how God used David to defeat Goliath (a “giant”) with something as small as a stone and goes into the life that David lived. I started reading it after one of the churches I am attending, First UMC Richardson, started a sermon series called “Against All Odds.” Last week’s message was about the “giants” in our lives and the obstacles we may face daily. Since then, I have been wondering, what are the “giants” in my life in regards to the ministry journey that I am on right now? What are the things that keep me from possibly seeing the bigger picture of why God brought me to Texas and to work with the Dallas Leadership Foundation? And so forth.

When we were asked what “giants” were in our lives last week, I really couldn’t express what the “giants” were but I knew I was facing them. I knew that I was facing obstacles yet I could not explain those obstacles in words; it was just something that I felt and knew I was dealing with. And that is where the quote above comes into play and where I will go back to a previous blog post where I talked about spiritual gifts.

When I took a few spiritual gift inventories, many of them came back with the top result of being “administration” with other gifts to follow. Before I entered into the ministry journey of being a US-2 young adult missionary and coming to Texas, I questioned what “ministry” looked like for me. I applied for 2 other ministry positions before being accepted into the US-2 program and before moving to Texas. During my time of discerning what “ministry” looked like for me and being turned down from the 2 ministry positions, I ended up talking to someone that I saw as a mentor and knew where I was at in regards to pursuing ministry. He was the InterVarsity staff worker on my campus and one thing I remember him telling me after I was turned down from the 2 ministry opportunities, was that he saw me in more of an administrative role and that the 2 job positions would not have been right for what God had gifted me with.

Since I have been in Texas, it has come up more than once that one of my gifts that is apparent is in administration. Yes administration comes easy to me and I can get things in the administrative area done fairly quickly but that where a “giant” lays. The giant is that even though I may be “gifted” in administration, there is still an undying passion to do more, a passion that has been apparent most of my life. Being a servant leader, a lifestyle that Jesus portrayed and was an example of.

Even though I realize that administration is a strong point and gift in my life, I sometimes wonder if it is making any difference. Right now I am having to trust God in the “small” things, or at least things that seem small to me but may not seem small to others. I have to continue following and relying on God where He has me and continue to continuously remind myself to slow down and try to see things the way God sees them. Once I started looking into pursuing a career in full time ministry, I was often told that you are doing ministry everywhere you go, it’s that we often overlook what’s going on and forget to realize that even the smallest thing we do is ministry to someone else. We just need to be obedient and trust God in where He has us now, doing the work that He has called us to do right now. So, what’s your ministry and what are your “giants?”