Feb. 21
BLESSING ON LITTLENESS
"He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great" Ps.
115:13
This is a word of cheer to those who are of humble station and mean
estate. Our God has a very gracious consideration for those of small
property, small talent, small influence, small weight. God careth for
the small things in creation, and even regards sparrows in their
lighting upon the ground. Nothing is small to God, for He makes use of
insignificant agents for the accomplishment of His purposes. Let the
least among men seek of God a blessing upon his littleness, and he
shall find his contracted sphere to be a happy one.
Among those who fear the Lord there are little and great. Some are
babes, and others are giants. But these are all blessed. Little faith
is blessed faith. Trembling hope is blessed hope. Every grace of the
Holy Spirit, even though it be only in the bud, bears a blessing
within it. Moreover, the Lord Jesus bought both the small and the
great with the same precious blood, and He has engaged to preserve the
lambs as well as the full-grown sheep. No mother overlooks her child
because it is little; nay, the smaller it is, the more tenderly does
she nurse it. If there be any preference with the Lord, He does not
arrange them as "great and small," but as "small and great.