For who has shown contempt for the day of small things?
- Zechariah 4:10a
The One Step Daily Devotional is intended to provide just one step each day for your journey with God. Every journey requires water breaks. Here is a water break for you.
In the days of Zechariah, rebuilding the temple was not a small task. The mission would have been overwhelming especially considering the circumstances: a very small workforce assigned to a very large pile of rubble.*
Sometimes in life, whether you are rebuilding the temple, a relationship, a dream, or a life, the pile of rubble just seems too big. The task is large, and you look around you and see that the team is small. Maybe you feel like you are the only one doing the work.
In times like this, we must remember that God shines best and does His best work through a small, believing, right-standing group.* In the day of Zechariah, God attached a promise to the rebuilding of the temple: it would get done.*
There are things that God is asking you to do that seem too big. I want to encourage you with this: do not despise the day of small things. Small things produce big results when God is behind it. Small beginnings that get the job done create a story that can only be explained by His involvement. This is a gift.
Take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay. Have a water break.
Maybe today the one step God wants you to take is to breathe in and rest in Him, knowing that He is the one with the power to get the task done. Perhaps God wants you to embrace the small beginning, or to remember the small beginning. Maybe God wants to shift your perspective to see the gift that it is.
Whatever the step, ask God to direct it. Take a moment to take that step. Invite Him to speak. He will.
Life is a long road. Walk it with Jesus. Take a water break… we all get thirsty.
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*Boda, M. J. (2004). Haggai, Zechariah (pp. 276–279). Zondervan Publishing House and Barker, K. L. (2008). Zechariah. In T. Longman III & D. E. Garland (Eds.), The Expositor’s Bible Commentary: Daniel–Malachi (Revised Edition) (Vol. 8, p. 762). Zondervan.