Obedience in small things...

It has been quite windy here in Oklahoma past few days. A friend of mine who lives out of town but works in town decided to put out his garbage can a day early so he would not forget and miss garbage day. With the wind the trash can fell over a couple of times. On one occasion, some of the paper blew out of the can and he had to chase some of it down. Not a young man it was frustrating to have to fight the wind to get the trash blowing away from his every move toward the strewn garbage. Picking it all up, he noticed two small pieces of paper in the alley quite a bit a ways from him. Two small pieces of paper which he thought by the time he got to the paper the wind would challenge his efforts again. And what difference would those two pieces of paper make if he made the effort to retrieve them? His thoughts got the better of him though. He chased them down and surprisingly the wind complied not blowing them out of his reach. Looking at the papers in his hand he saw that they were two valuable documents that were thrown in the trash by accident. They were irreplaceable documents. Two documents accidently thrown in the trash and mysteriously paired together in the alley in his sight.
Sometimes we can in our best judgment and justification ignore little promptings to things we observe and see. We can look past them as irrelevant and not worth the effort of our commitment to do something abut them. My friend was prompted to look past what he thought were of two small pieces of garbage with no value to find that they were something of great value. And even if they turned out to be two small pieces of “trash”, the value of obedience to things we are prompted to do has GREAT VALUE! What is God asking you do to today? What things are we being shown that need attention? Are we ignoring them or chasing them down completing the tasks we are being prompted or asked to do? Luke 16:10 says - “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.”