Do you want to make a significant difference in your family? at work? in your church? Sure, you do.

You have a heart to bless others big. But how? Giving and getting big blessings can seem overwhelming, impossible, just crazy.

Big blessings begin with small actions.

To get you started, I’d like you to start with two small actions. Just two.

Two Small Actions to Get You Started

1. Think of  what change you want in order to make a significance difference. A bigger paycheck? Kids who obey? An opportunity to feed the hungry in your community in the name of Christ?

2. Read this story titled “Just a Few Drops.” It’s amazing. I guarantee it will inspire you and show you how small actions lead to big blessings. Ready, set, read.

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 Just a Few Drops

 (Author Unknown)

The Drought

It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone back into the earth. It was a dry season that would bankrupt several farmers before it was through.

Every day, my husband and his brothers would go about the arduous process of trying to get water to the fields. Lately this process had involved taking a truck to the local water rendering plant and filling it up with water. But severe rationing had cut everyone off. If we didn’t see some rain soon. . .we would lose everything.

The Little Boy

It was on this day that I learned the true lesson of sharing and witnessed the only miracle I have seen with my own eyes. I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He wasn’t walking with the usual carefree abandon of a youth but with a serious purpose. I could only see his back. He was obviously walking with a great effort. . .trying to be as still as possible.

Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the house. I went back to making sandwiches, thinking that whatever task he had been doing was completed. Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purposeful stride toward the woods.

This activity went on for an hour. He would walk carefully to the woods, run back to the house. Finally I couldn’t take it any longer and I crept out of the house and followed him on his journey (being very careful not to be seen. . .as he was obviously doing important work and didn’t need his Mommy checking up on him).

The Sneaky Mom

He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked, being very careful not to spill the water he held in them. . .maybe two or three tablespoons were held in his tiny hands. I sneaked close as he went into the woods. Branches and thorns slapped his little face but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much higher purpose.

As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site. Several large deer loomed in front of him. Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. A huge buck with elaborate antlers was dangerously close. But the buck did not threaten him. . .he didn’t even move as Billy knelt down. And I saw a tiny fawn laying on the ground, obviously suffering from dehydration and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy’s hand.

The Spigot

When the water was gone, Billy jumped up to run back to the house and I hid behind a tree. I followed him back to the house, to a spigot that we had shut off the water to. Billy opened it all the way up and a small trickle began to creep out. He knelt there, letting the drip, drip slowly fill up his makeshift “cup,” as the sun beat down on his little back.

And it came clear to me. The trouble he had gotten into for playing with the hose the week before. The lecture he had received about the importance of not wasting water. The reason he didn’t ask me to help him.

It took almost twenty minutes for the drops to fill his hands. When he stood up and began the trek back, I was there in front of him. His little eyes just filled with tears. “I’m not wasting,” was all he said.

The Rescue

As he began his walk, I joined him. . .with a small pot of water from the kitchen. I let him tend to the fawn. I stayed away. It was his job.

I stood on the edge of the woods watching the most beautiful heart I have ever known working so hard to save another life. As the tears that rolled down my face began to hit the ground, they were suddenly joined by other drops. . .and more drops. . .and more. I looked up at the sky. It was as if God, himself, was weeping with pride.

Some will probably say that this was all just a huge coincidence. That miracles don’t really exist. That it was bound to rain sometime. And I can’t argue with that. . .I’m not going to try. All I can say is that the rain that came that day saved our farm. . .just like the actions of one little boy saved another.

I don’t know if anyone will read this. . .but I had to send it. . . .To honor the memory of my beautiful Billy, who was taken from me much too soon but not before showing me the true face of God, in a little sunburned body.

Small Actions, Big Blessing

The boy took small actions and achieved a higher purpose. He valued the life of a fawn and brought it life-giving water. One handful. Another handful. And another.

Small actions. Big blessing.

God took mercy on the family and the fawn and sent clouds heavy with rain drops. Amazing, just amazing.

Do you need a miracle too? Do you want the desires of your heart?

God promises, “Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give your the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4)

You begin by delighting yourself in the LORD, worshiping him, choosing his will, his plans. Then as you align your heart with his, you will want what he wants. His desires become your desires. What God purposes comes to pass. Always.

Getting What You Desire

Remember I said two small actions up top? First, you thought what change to want to make a significance difference. Second, you saw how one boy’s small actions and his determination saved a life.

Now ask God to impress on your heart your next small action to make a significant difference. Underline small. Write it on your calendar. Then do it.

 

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