BBD 06.14.21 The Little Things (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

14 June 2021

The Little Things

And the
woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said,
You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ Then the serpent
said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you
eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. - Genesis
3:2-6.

In
Copenhagen, they had quite a scare at the European Union Asian summit. The
driver for Paivi Lipponen, the Finnish prime minister’s wife, heard a strange
sound coming from Paivi’s luggage. As a result, a bomb alert was sent out and
the area was sealed off until the source of suspicious noise could be
determined. The Prime Minister’s wife said, “It was suspected that there might be a bomb in my bag.
But there was no bomb.” The
Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen said, “Over-zealous policemen checked our bags with bomb
sniffing dogs. Instead of using their sense they used something else.” What was the source of the strange noise that caused so much
trouble? It was Paivi Lipponen’s battery powered shaver, which had
somehow been turned on inside her luggage!

Have
you ever noticed how little things can cause tremendous amounts of trouble?
Adam and Eve found that out the hard way when they succumbed to the temptation
of the serpent and ate a piece of fruit in the Garden of Eden. As a result, all
of creation was corrupted and Adam and Eve were forced to leave the beautiful
and wondrous Garden. The serpent appealed to their jealous desire saying, “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil (Genesis 3:5).” Cain killed his brother because Abel was observant in following the
rules for making an offering to God with the sacrifice of “the firstborn of his flock.” Cain was
jealous that God was pleased with Abel’s offering and not his offering of
the “fruit of the ground (Genesis 4).” Jealousy again reared its ugly head when the brothers of Joseph sold
their brother into slavery (Genesis 37).

Pride
is a little thing that also causes tremendous trouble. The Tower of Babel
in Genesis 11 was
all about pride as the people said in opposition to what God wanted, “Let us make a name for ourselves.” Pride
was the source of the rebellion of Aaron and Miriam against the God given
authority of Moses (Numbers 12). The Pharisee’s thought themselves better than those they considered
sinners, and that they were not like “other
men (Luke 18:11).”

Greed
is another little thing that causes all kinds of problems. Judas sold out Jesus
for only 30 pieces of silver (Matthew
26:14-16). Ananias and Sapphira didn’t give all
the money they received from the sale of property to the early church because
of their greed (Acts 5:1-11).

Lust is
another little action of the heart that has been the source of countless evil
deeds throughout all of history (Matthew 5:28; Proverbs 6:20-35). Lust caused much trouble for King David and his son, Solomon. In only
the past decade there have many public figures that have destroyed their lives
and the lives of others by having affairs.

Then
there is the tongue, which aids and abets jealousy, pride, greed, and lust (and
many other evils). James says about the tongue in James chapter 3, “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great
things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire,
a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the
whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by
hell.”

While
little things cause much trouble, little things can also bring about much good.
Only a few fish and pieces of bread given to God can feed thousands of people.
God can use those who see themselves as incapable of being used just like He
used Moses and Gideon (1 Corinthians
1:25-30). Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz wrote a
book called “God is in the Small
Stuff and it all matters.” Even the
little things are important and matter to God. So, what do we do? In
the Name of Jesus (another little thing but with so much power - Matthew 1:21; John 1:12; John 16:24) we
must give all of those little things to God, and He will empower us to
live (Philippians 4:13; Romans 8:37) an overcoming life, which will bring glory to the Lord.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and
Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda
Hutson (fighting cancer); and Sharon H.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

14 June 2021

The Little Things

And the
woman said to the serpent, ‘We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said,
You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ Then the serpent
said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you
eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil.’ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its
fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. - Genesis
3:2-6.

In
Copenhagen, they had quite a scare at the European Union Asian summit. The
driver for Paivi Lipponen, the Finnish prime minister’s wife, heard a strange
sound coming from Paivi’s luggage. As a result, a bomb alert was sent out and
the area was sealed off until the source of suspicious noise could be
determined. The Prime Minister’s wife said, “It was suspected that there might be a bomb in my bag.
But there was no bomb.” The
Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen said, “Over-zealous policemen checked our bags with bomb
sniffing dogs. Instead of using their sense they used something else.” What was the source of the strange noise that caused so much
trouble? It was Paivi Lipponen’s battery powered shaver, which had
somehow been turned on inside her luggage!

Have
you ever noticed how little things can cause tremendous amounts of trouble?
Adam and Eve found that out the hard way when they succumbed to the temptation
of the serpent and ate a piece of fruit in the Garden of Eden. As a result, all
of creation was corrupted and Adam and Eve were forced to leave the beautiful
and wondrous Garden. The serpent appealed to their jealous desire saying, “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil (Genesis 3:5).” Cain killed his brother because Abel was observant in following the
rules for making an offering to God with the sacrifice of “the firstborn of his flock.” Cain was
jealous that God was pleased with Abel’s offering and not his offering of
the “fruit of the ground (Genesis 4).” Jealousy again reared its ugly head when the brothers of Joseph sold
their brother into slavery (Genesis 37).

Pride
is a little thing that also causes tremendous trouble. The Tower of Babel
in Genesis 11 was
all about pride as the people said in opposition to what God wanted, “Let us make a name for ourselves.” Pride
was the source of the rebellion of Aaron and Miriam against the God given
authority of Moses (Numbers 12). The Pharisee’s thought themselves better than those they considered
sinners, and that they were not like “other
men (Luke 18:11).”

Greed
is another little thing that causes all kinds of problems. Judas sold out Jesus
for only 30 pieces of silver (Matthew
26:14-16). Ananias and Sapphira didn’t give all
the money they received from the sale of property to the early church because
of their greed (Acts 5:1-11).

Lust is
another little action of the heart that has been the source of countless evil
deeds throughout all of history (Matthew 5:28; Proverbs 6:20-35). Lust caused much trouble for King David and his son, Solomon. In only
the past decade there have many public figures that have destroyed their lives
and the lives of others by having affairs.

Then
there is the tongue, which aids and abets jealousy, pride, greed, and lust (and
many other evils). James says about the tongue in James chapter 3, “Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great
things. See how great a forest a little fire kindles! And the tongue is a fire,
a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the
whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by
hell.”

While
little things cause much trouble, little things can also bring about much good.
Only a few fish and pieces of bread given to God can feed thousands of people.
God can use those who see themselves as incapable of being used just like He
used Moses and Gideon (1 Corinthians
1:25-30). Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz wrote a
book called “God is in the Small
Stuff and it all matters.” Even the
little things are important and matter to God. So, what do we do? In
the Name of Jesus (another little thing but with so much power - Matthew 1:21; John 1:12; John 16:24) we
must give all of those little things to God, and He will empower us to
live (Philippians 4:13; Romans 8:37) an overcoming life, which will bring glory to the Lord.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman’ Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx Jones; Todd Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and
Lisa Butler who has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark
S.; Lana Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Bill S.; Shonda
Hutson (fighting cancer); and Sharon H.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

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