Despise Not Humble Beginnings

• You’re watching KCMI TV. I want to talk to you today about, and I think a lot of us struggle with this. I did for years. We feel like that for us to do great things in God, we’ve just got to have an optimum setting and great giftings and great talent. But when you really begin to study the scripture, the scripture is it contradicts that.
• And there’s a verse in Habach 4 and verse 10, and this is the New Living Translation says, “Do not despise these small beginnings.” And um when you go back through history, not even just biblically, but even in the natural, most of the time, people who have shaped the destiny of of of the world of humanity and inventions and and in the church, they did not have great beginnings.
• And if we would look at them, nobody would have ever picked them. But God did. And um Job 8:7 says, “Though your beginnings were small, was small, yet your latter end should greatly increase.” And so I want to share with you a little bit in the scriptures about some men and women that um did amazing things for the kingdom of God.
• And yet their their beginnings were small or insignificant. And when Jesus was teaching uh in the scriptures, he likens faith to a mustard seed. And he said, “If if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea.” And uh it’s interesting to think that of all of the things that Christ could have used as an analogy or a comparison for faith, he would use uh mustard seed.
• And uh most of the time when we read this, we think, well, God’s using that comparison because the mustard seed is one of the smallest of all the seeds. And that is true. And I think that that part of the reason that God picked the mustard seed as an analogy is is its size. But that’s not the only reason God picked it.