Everything is bigger than ever, and one is almost numbed by the phenomenal growth and lost in the morass of man's vaunted "great society." Even mammoth shopping centers and road systems, which facilitate much for good, make one breathless and confused, especially when you consider the huge national debt—so immense that we are overcome when we try to calculate how unbelievably great it is! This, along with the measureless distance of space, the devastating power of nuclear explosives—plus the increasing hordes of Christless masses and the frightening growth of apostate Christendom—tend to make one seem so insignificantly small and helplessly weak in these last, difficult days.

The child of God, however is not overcome by this "greatness" of man's progress and development of man's sin. He knows that all shall soon be leveled in the sure judgment of God. Meanwhile he turns to the Word of God and is encouraged in reading how the Lord uses the "LITTLE THINGS" to accomplish His purposes and to preserve His "LITTLE FLOCK" through it all until He comes!

A Little Maid (2 Kings 5:2), a captive far from home, witnessed a good confession to her captor's wife, and Naaman the great Syrian captain was healed of his leprosy and converted to God.

A Little Oil (1 Kings 17:12) along with a handful of meal in the bottom of a barrel—enough for one more meal, at the Word of the Lord sustained Elijah, the widow and her son for a whole year in the time of famine.

A Little Cloud (1 Kings 18:44)—only the size of a man's hand—seemed insufficient to end the drought of three and a half years, but in answer to Elijah's prayer of faith, God sent a deluge of refreshing, life-giving rain.

Little Fishes (Matthew 14:17; 15:34)—only "two" in one incident; only "a few" in the other! "What are they among so many?" asked the faithless disciples. In the hands of Jesus they, with the "five" loaves in the first and the "seven" loaves in the second, multiplied to feed 5,000 and 4,000 men respectively, beside women and children, and they had baskets full left over!

A Little Honey (1 Samuel 14:29) was all Jonathan took, but it enlightened his eyes after the day of battle. So faith appropriates what is "sweeter than honey and the honeycomb" and is strengthened by the "eating" even of a little of the Word of the living God (Psalm 19:9-11).

A Little Chamber (2 Kings 4:10)—nothing pretentious, but built out of love for the prophet and sufficiently equipped for his needs. Surely such hospitality will not go unrewarded in the day of manifestation!

A Little Strength (Revelation 3:8) coupled with obedience to the Word of God and devotedness to the name of the Lord, is all one needs for testimony and service in these last days.

A Little While (Hebrews 10:37) "And He that shall come will come, and will not tarry." Lift up your heads, fellow-believers; that which ever has been the hope of every true child of God will soon be realized. Nothing of the greatness of this world can compare to the immensity of the rapture awaiting His "Little Flock" to whom the Father will give the kingdom (Luke 12:32).

—Donald T. Johnson