🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵Dear Dad nails it in this one. So important but rarely gotten. Enjoy.
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Are you DESPISING THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS?
04/10 Daily Exhortation (Matt.6:11; Luke 11:3; Heb. 3:13; 10:25)…
Let’s see more in this 4:10 on this 4/10…
Zechariah 4:10 (KJB) For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
This is one of my favorite passages. SOOOO POWERFUL. SOOOO LOADED. So packed. Let’s unpack a few items only.
The question is SO PROFOUND. “For who hath despised the day of small things?” It goes on to make the PLUMMET (measuring standard) be the eyes of the Lord. Rev. 5 calls them the SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD (which were upon Christ per Isaiah 11). And we know the “canon” or measuring standard to be the WORD OF GOD.
John 6:63 says that Christ’s words are spirit and life. They are the selfsame Spirit manifestation of God. In short, what proceeds from the heart of God is the PLUMMET.
But let’s focus on “For who hath despised the day of small things?” Well, quite frankly, MOST HAVE.
You see, God’s Spirit, the zeal of the Lord of hosts, shall accomplish major things via small things. God does EXTRAORDINARY through the ORDINARY.
The famous Zech. 4:6 “NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS” precedes this verse.
Zechariah is encouraging the people to REBUILD THE TEMPLE, THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
It may start with a plummet in the hand.
God is saying in essence that even though they don’t have the Master-builder of Solomon, A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE. JESUS.
1 Cor. 1:25-29 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Paul means SMALL. And Paul wrote 14 books of the Bible and MORE TOTAL WORDS THAN LUKE and thusly the MOST of the NEW TESTAMENT! While in bonds, Paul GRABS ENTIRE CONTINENTS IN EITHER HAND AND SHAKES UP THE WORLD!!!!!! Paul was a Benjamite (the smallest tribe). Bingo.
King Saul despised the day of small things. Goliath despised the day of small things. Pharisees despise the day of small things. Judas loves the day of BIG THINGS. Where is the LORD GOD OF ELIJAH? Elijah was reported of a “little cloud” and said a great rain was coming.
A small seed grows into the MIGHTY OAK. A poor man’s wisdom is despised (Ecc. 9:16; James 2:6; Prov. 14:20-21; Proverbs 19:4,7)…
Matthew 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Manna was small, but LOATHED/DESPISED.
Poverty makes people see a blessing in THE SMALLEST OF THINGS.
This mega-church mentality modern church age is cursed. Why? They despise the day of small things.
Folks want something much bigger than themselves. This is tricky.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS BIG.
Paul wrote Hebrews and calls it “few words” in Heb. 13:22. YET, IT IS WEIGHTY AND POWERFUL AND MEATY.
God reduced Gideon’s army to 1%. Quality is more important to God than QUANTITY. Lack of faith makes folks not see the BIGGER PICTURE. The cross takes much away but is a PLUS SIGN which adds FOR ALL ETERNITY. Eternal bliss, ever-increasing kingdom, learning about God FOREVER, praising our King FOREVER. Take the lowest seat now. In the Grand Flip, the last will be first and first last.
Jesus came humble and as a poor, carpenter’s son born of a woman of low estate. FOLKS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS.
Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
Psalm 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. THE HOUSE OF DAVID IS SMALL AND DESPISED. REMNANT AND RESIDUE. THE BRIDE OF CHRIST IS NOW HUGE, BELOVED CHURCH, SCATTERED OVER THE CORRIDORS OF 2000 YEARS.
CHURCH, WHO HATH DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS? ALL WHO HAVE FORSAKEN THE ASSEMBLY HAVE. ALL WHO DESPISE THE STRAIT AND NARROW WAY FOR THE BROADWAY. All House of Saul-oriented folks who despise the HOUSE OF DAVID. All who forget the PROVIDENTIAL PENNIES. Babylon, USA, despises the day of small things. Church, let us cherish the day of small things. Let us appreciate the tiniest jot and tittle of the word, the still small voice of the Lord, the bigger picture that is behind the tiniest of details, and we’ll more greatly rejoice in Jesus’ unending kingdom expanding for all eternity and inherit great things to come. –r <3
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