April 13, 2014: Trusted With Little

Luke 16:10 - Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.

Favor can be found in small venues and in small errands.  Favor comes by saying yes to the small things as if you were saying yes to the big thing.  God wants to entrust us with much, but the way that He does that is by entrusting us with little things.

Worship leading is a journey, not a destination.  It is important for us to appreciate every step in that journey.  It is good for us to learn faithfulness, commitment, and character from the earliest stages of the journey.  The principles of being trustworthy with small things are the same principles that are needed to be trustworthy with big things.  That's why if you can thrive with the small things you can thrive with much bigger things.

No good father burdens their children with the too much responsibility too soon.  A good father gives their children little things to manage and care for and over time adds more.  And our heavenly father does the same.

They way to respond to the things that we have been entrusted with as worship leaders is not to complain that we could handle a lot more, but rather see them as the opportunity for excellence.  Take pride in doing the best that you can in the little things.  If they are truly little, then it should be relatively easy to do well.  We almost always find their to be an opportunity to grow and improve.

This is how we need to pursue our destiny as worship leaders.  We need to value the responsibility that we have currently been entrusted with.  We need to serve other first rather than serve our own ambitions. Jumping from one opportunity to the next only to serve your ambitions is a manipulation of God's plan for promotion in your life.  And it usually does not end well.

God does have a promotion plan for our lives; it's not self-promotion is selfless serving.  Serving someone else's vision instead of our own creates more opportunities in our lives than pursuing self interests.  God wants to bring us to a place where we can be entrusted with much, so let us be faithful with what he has given us now.