Why wait! Is it in the big happenings that change life? Yes, it is! But all too often I forget to realize that it’s a process. It’s doing all the little things and being consistent at doing them — but not only doing them, but doing them right and proper. Like going to work and being faithful in doing a good job especially when it can get boring and repetitive! Saying goodbye and hello to the wife and kids when I walk through the door every day and to say I love you even if I had the worst day ever.

It says in the book of Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” We see it’s a season or seasons of doing good before the reward comes — not one big moment! All the little actions that we stayed faithful and true in are like steps building into something more significant. “Who [with reason] despises the day of small things (beginnings)?” (Zechariah 4:10). Look at an apple tree, how small are the seeds. It can take 5 to 8 years before the tree is fully grown before it starts bearing fruit. During those years, the seed needs first to be planted in good ground then get watered and get plenty of sunlight before it even becomes a tree! Every day the sun comes up and goes down! What would happen if the sun wasn’t consistent? The tree would die!

There was a man who worked as a sales clerk, and he dreamt of making different looking ties, and he did, and in a year, it went so well he started a company called Polo; we know him as Ralph Lauren. I think about the story of the cell phone; the inventor, Martin Cooper, said he was inspired by watching Star Trek. It was a little thought but with a lot of work, 35 years later, more than half of the world’s population have a cell phone. Job 8:7, “Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.” When Billy Graham left his first Bible college, the director told him that if he kept on going the way he was going, nothing special would ever become of him.

I think we all have had sharp words spoken to us by someone we respect. That little word is like a seed. We can choose to water it and bring it into the light (our thoughts) and let it grow into who we are. The amazing thing is we can decide to make the negative words die, and the positive words live by the thoughts we choose! But we must be consistent on our thoughts just like it says in the book of Romans 12:2, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

Did you catch the word prove? Prove means to learn or find out by experience. We have to apply the word of God to our life’s experiences and be faithful to what God’s word says. Then our thoughts will be God’s thoughts, and I believe we will experience the faithfulness of God! There is a story of a man walking into an elephant camp, and he noticed that the elephants weren’t held by chains or cages — all that was restraining them was a little rope. He asked the trainer how a small rope can hold a magnificent elephant down. The trainer replied, “When the elephants are very young we use the same little rope to hold them down, and as they grow up they are conditioned to believe that same small rope will hold them down. No matter how much strength and nor magnificent they get, they still think and feel they can’t move.” All too often we can hold on to some negative words that someone said and it’s just like that little rope stuck in the ground holding us back just like the elephant. All we have to do is get up and walk, but our heart can be so broken because of our thought condition.

Walk towards God, and He gives you a new heart that will break free from that ugly rope. Word upon word, line upon line, (Isaiah 28:10) brick by brick, year upon year being faithful to God, the creator in relationship and fellowship, and not to lose passion. Hebrews 6:12 warns that you do “not become sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Being faithful in the little things will make today the day, every day!