SMALL ONE!!

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 356
December 5, 2017///

When my family gathers for Christmas at our house, most of the time before getting into the presents we read a story for the kids that is enjoyed by all ages.

One of the children’s books we read a lot is called “Small One”. This story is about a donkey who was to small and weak to carry his load and the father was going to sell him and at the young son’s begging, allowed his son to take the donkey to the market to sell. The young man determined to find small one a good home ended up encountering Joseph and small one became the donkey that carried Mary to Bethlehem.

There is also a story about three trees that you may remember hearing. Three trees had great desires and dreams of what they would become when they grew up.

The first wanted to be made into a beautiful treasure chest and be covered with gold and hold precious stones.

The second wanted to be the strongest ship in the world and carry powerful kings.

The third just wanted to stay on the mountain and become so tall that when people looked at it they would look to heaven and think of God.

In time all three trees were cut down. The first became a feedbox of animals. The second was made into a simple fishing boat. The third tree was cut into strong beams and left her in the lumberyard. The third tree bemoaned what had happened, saying “all I wanted was to stay on the mountain and point people to God”.

It appeared none of the three trees dreams were to happen.

But one night: Golden starlight poured over the first tree as Mary placed her baby, the Savior of the world, into the manger and the first tree knew he was holding the greatest treasure in the world.

Years later a tired traveler and his friends got into a small fishing boat. The tired traveler lay down to sleep and a storm arose and in the midst of the storm the tired traveler arose and said: “Peace” and the storm ceased. The second tree suddenly realized he was carrying the King of Heaven and Earth.

One Friday morning the third tree was snatched from the woodpile and a man’s hands were nailed fast to the strong wood. The third tree felt ugly and cruel. But on Sunday morning the third tree knew that God’s Love had changed everything. It had made the third tree strong and every time people thought of the third tree they would think of God. That was better than being the tallest tree in the world.

May I tell you this morning that the dreams you have or the plans you have made, may seem gone forever, but God has a better plan, a better door, a better way.

Maybe like small one you are to weak to carry the load you are trying to carry but God has an important task that fits just you. And like the trees: the treasures and kings to be carried and being able to point the way to God, may take a different form that you imagined but God can take what we think is the death of our dream and desire and turns it into amazing Blessings.

In a book called “The Dream Giver”, a man called ordinary was trying to follow his dream. The one day: Ordinary Was Asked To Give His Dream Back To God.

ORDINARY SAID:
I Am Surrendering My Dream To You, Dream Giver. I’ve Decided That It’s You That I Can’t Go On Without.

THEN LATER GOD SAID:
ORDINARY, I AM GIVING YOU BACK YOUR DREAM. NOW YOU CAN USE IT TO SERVE ME. NOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE TRULY GREAT THINGS. AND I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.

When realize that God is the dream giver and it is Him that we need to seek, He will give us back our dream and cause it to come to pass. It may not be how we imagined it, but it will be better than we could ever imagine.

Be encouraged today and know that we do not see as God sees so we just trust our dream to Him and let Him lead.

Proverbs 3:5-6 (KJV)
5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Psalm 37:4-5 (KJV)
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Remember it’s not over till it’s over!!!
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Father, thank you so much that your plans for me are so much better that my plans for myself. I ask that you stir deep within each one who reads this the dream you have placed within them and as they release this dream to you, and pursue a closer relationship to you, things will be according to your plan. I trust in you Lord and do not depend on my own understanding. Bless each on who reads this exceedingly, abundantly, above all we ask or imagine. Amen

Love, Me-Maw