When you look at the beaches, you often see the flat crescent of sand leading to the water's edge. Behind that flat curve is a pile of sand dunes, often obscured by vegetation, rocks, beach blankets, trash, etc. . . .
Looking closer at the beach you will find individual grains of sand, packed together. These attach themselves to you when you walk to the water, to be transported somewhere else, and when you return, others hitchhike to the ascending crescent. When the tide comes in, tectonic plates shift, or rains pour, sand moves, and over time through hitchhiking on somebody's pants, sand piles up in dunes.
A person's life can sometimes seem insignificant. You may think what you are doing doesn't matter, a job that seems to go nowhere, witnessing to someone doesn't seem to have an effect, no ears seem to listen, you may think that no one is paying attention or that you cannot affect any change, any ascension. Life goes on and on flat. Cast those thoughts aside, right now. You have been hoodwinked.
Let's look at the beach again. That tiny grain of sand in itself may seem insignificant. However, it has a job to do, somewhere to go. It has to add to the pile, so to speak to keep back the water. It controls that water flow and keeps flood out. Now that tiny piece of sand may not look like it can do that, but with other pieces it can. It travels to the dune.
If sand is that important, then how important are you?
You may think your day to day life is insignificant, or that what you do does not matter to the whole of the world, but God sees you. He notices where you are, and knows what you are capable of. God designed you, just as he designed that grain of sand. Although your imprint in life may seem small, it is great.
During times when you feel like you are not making much affect, in fact that is when you have the most affect. People are watching you, listening to you and what you do influences them. During the steady parts of your life, you are merely hitchhiking up to the dunes. Every step you take, song you sing, breath you breathe, every word you say and every job you do, that is significant to God. He is carrying you along up the crescent of life to make a life-changing impact on someone else, and that person adds someone else, and the building goes on, until there is an unbreachable dune. You can't shake a dune. You cannot destroy it. It is heavy. Ever try to flatten one? Good luck with that.
God has a purpose for your life, and every step of your life, if you are dedicated to God, you are on your way to fulfilling that purpose.You are of great value. Sand becomes pearls in an oyster. Sand becomes strong dunes on the beach. It becomes rocks, it never stops building.
At a low time in my life, I was dying with pneumonia, and cried out to God for help. I didn't feel worthy to enter Heaven. I asked God to forgive me and asked him to send someone to smile at me if he forgave me. We stopped at a gas station and a woman got out of her car. She had a cross necklace on. She looked over at me, seemingly at random, and smiled. That changed my life. God not only forgave me, he saved me and healed me so i can tell you this today. Her action may have seemed insignificant all on its own, but it was a life changing answer of faith to me.
The next time you are out somewhere give a smile, say hello, lend a hand, be the sand. Know that whatever your hands and thoughts find to do, you do all in the name of Jesus. You are important. You might be the grain that clings, and hitchhikes people to Heaven.
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