In a previous devotion I shared about Serving without Complaining in
Philippians 2:14-18. These verses also mentions rejoicing for others.
It’s easy to get distracted by other people’s ministry. To say my ministry isn’t as big as theirs or I wish I could do that. But you don’t know where they started.
Every ministry starts small. No one immediately has a mega church or crusades to millions, they started out small. Even Jesus started out small. By calling the disciples one by one or in pairs. Even after he began to attract crowds, he saw each person as valuable and stopped those crowds, just to focus on one person. Like Zacchaeus, or the cripple lowered though the roof or the woman with the issue of blood. Jesus focus was always on the individual.
Ministry is about reaching people. So whether it’s big or small if you’ve reached a person you’ve made a difference.
So rejoice for others in their blessing to reach the multitude and know that they started just like you, by reaching one person at a time.
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