Just a little...

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Recently I have done some reading and chatting which caused me to feel like we're spinning our wheels, never giving or being enough, making no progress, and "What's the point anyway?"  However, this led to a realization which came home clearly and I said aloud, "We need the Holy Spirit to move."  Apparently, I had forgotten that.  

I am thankful both for the recognition of futility without doing what the Father is doing, and the importance of offering small gifts which God empowers.  This is the current message on repeat in my brain.  God takes the small offerings.  He takes what we offer in weakness and makes it enough or more than enough.  This is not an excuse for offering little.  It's an encouragement to offer anything at all... to offer the little you have in weakness and to be okay with that, and faithful in it.  If you have strength, I advise caution because all of our efforts are futile without the Lord's working.  Human strength and charisma outside of the Lord's refinement can lead to some bad things. 

Today, I want to try to offer what little I have.  Today, maybe you have more than usual, or maybe less.  Maybe you're steeped in pain or brokenness and feel like anything you offer is like dung - faithfully offer it anyway.  If you are afraid that what you have to offer isn't  enough, offer it anyway.  It will never be enough or good enough; accept that and offer anyway.  God can take the small insignificant and less than perfect, less than enough offerings and make them enough and more than enough.  

He doesn't just multiply bread and fish.