The Wednesday Word
A Little to a Lot
by
D.
G. Miles McKee
The
Lord can do a lot with a little. Just consider how in John 6:1-14 the
Lord was given a little food (5
loaves and 2 fish)
and turned it into a feast. Little was placed in hands of the
Lord and He made it a lot. Isn’t that just like Jesus?
I
recently read of how an evangelist was ministering many years ago in
the Lake District of England. There he met an 80-year-old lady
who told him how her shop had come into being. It all started in her
Sunday school class when, one day, one of her young students came to
her after class with a request. He held up a shining sixpence and
said, “Please, Mrs. Cameron, will you give this sixpence to Jesus?”
Startled, she almost told the child she couldn’t do that, but upon
her shoulder she felt the restraining hand of the Lord who seemed to
direct her, “Take it.” “Alright,” Mrs. Cameron told the boy,
“I’ll give it to Jesus.” That night she held up the sixpence
and prayed, “Lord Jesus, this is your sixpence. What do you want me
to do with it?”
The next morning, she took the sixpence
and bought currants and self-rising flour and made some buns. She put
them in the front window of her cottage on two plates, and within
half an hour, they had all sold. With the money, she made more buns,
and sold them. She continued making buns, selling buns, making buns
and selling buns. After a time, she went down to the grocer. “Mr.
Smith,” she asked, “would you have any damaged tins of beans,
fruit, anything that you would sell to me at a reduced price?” “Why
yes, Mrs. Cameron, I would.” So now in the front room window of her
cottage she was selling, along with her buns, tins which were dented
or had missing labels. This went on for a while, and then she
thought, “Why not sell Bibles?” Soon she was selling buns, beans,
and Bibles. She made so much money, she decided to remove her front
window and to install a shop window. Then she began a line of
Christian books. She was truly in business now, selling buns, beans,
Bibles and books. Her sales continued to increase. Mrs. Cameron led
the evangelist into her shop. “I want to show you something,” she
said as she opened a ledger book. Turning the pages over, she pointed
to listing after listing: George Mueller’s orphanage £125 (a
considerable sum in those days) …
£150,
China Inland Mission … £200, Congo Evangelistic Mission.
Page after page recorded money she had sent out across the world
ministering to countless missionary organizations and orphanages …
and it all began with a little boy’s sixpence.
It wasn’t
so important what the boy had, but where he put it. He put it into
the hands of Jesus.
Jesus is the Lord of multiplication
and abundance. He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that
we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20). He is supernatural. The
amazing thing is that He uses what we have to accomplish His
purposes. What we have is what Christ uses. “But”, says
someone, “I have so little faith.” That´s OK, just use what
faith you have in His service and you will be amazed as to how the
Lord Jesus works.
And that’s the Gospel Truth!
Note: please find enclosed a link to audio Gospel sermons and Contact Information for preacher Miles - http://milesmckee.com/
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