A Few Will Do

​Why is it that you and I often think nothing worthwhile can happen unless a bunch of people want it to?

​We think that a few will not do.
 
Could it be that we have bought into the world system surrounding us that subtly dupes us into believing unless you have mega-dollars, large staffs, sprawling headquarters and campuses, massive networks, or vast numbers of “likes” and followers on Facebook and YouTube you cannot be successful?
 

• Sad to say, even some Christians and churches/ministries have accepted that “bigger is better and the bigger the better” if you want to accomplish something great for God.

 
Biblically, a bunch and big is not always better.
 
More and bigger is better can cause the average, little guy to wonder if he can ever accomplish anything significant with his solitary life. Comparing and competing with the big guys on the block can cause regular folks to struggle with feeling low self-esteem, useless and like a failure.
 
Big is good. But small can be good too. Zechariah 4:10 declares “Do not despise the day of small beginnings.” I love this scripture. It tells me to not feel bad about starting small.
 
I wonder if you and I should start small, think tall. Everything in life starts small! Absolutely nothing on earth begins big!
 
Jonathan, David’s friend and King Saul’s son, shows us what a few (just two) can do). “Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, ‘Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”                  I Samuel 14:6
 
With confident and courageous faith, Jonathan and his armor bearer slipped into the enemy’s territory and took out their adversaries. The Lord “worked for them.” God Almighty was not restrained by “a few.” Two committed guys annihilated an army because The Lord was with just a few (two!).
 

• God does not have a minimum number He must have before He acts. Most often in the Word he used ONE, TWO OR A FEW!

 
Biblical Examples Of How A Few Will Do
 

• Abraham left his comfortable, wealthy family to seek the Promised Land.
• Moses singlehandedly delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt.
• Rahab, a prostitute, protected Joshua from his enemies.
• Noah, his family, a big old Ark and a zoo of smelly animals secured mankind another chance to obey God.
• Gideon and three hundred committed warriors conquered 100.000 adversaries.
• Daniel in a lion’s den turned a pagan king’s heart to the Lord.
• Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego’s fiery furnace experience taught an evil nation a faith lesson.
• Jonah, a wild ride in the belly of a whale brought a city to repent and serve the Living God.
• Elijah called holy fired down from heaven, consuming eight hundred prophets of Baal.
• A shepherd boy David slayed a gigantic Goliath with stones and a slingshot.
• Jesus spent three years with a small company of twelve disciples.
• An unnamed boy’s lunch of five loaves of bread and two fish fed thousands of hungry people.
• 120 Spirit-filled believers started the church at Pentecost, winning souls to Christ.
• Paul established churches in Europe and the Middle East on three missionary trips.
• John saw into heaven by the Holy Spirit and gave us Revelation.

 
There are many, many other examples in the Bible of a few men and women, who, banded together by strong, committed faith, turned the world they lived in upside down for the Kingdom of God.
 
My fellow followers of Jesus Christ, our current world needs to be turned right side up! Humanity is in great peril, facing God’s judgment, if we do not reach folks for the Gospel. People are dying in sin and headed for an eternal hell. The Bible says so.
 
Years ago, the United States Marine Corp’s advertising slogan was the Marines were looking for “A few good men.”
 
The Lord is constantly looking for a few good men and women to serve as good soldiers of Jesus Christ in the battle for souls.
 

• How about you? And a few. What if God is looking for you and a few to do something new and utterly amazing for His glory and the good of mankind?

 
Please be encouraged in the Lord. Get fired up! Report for duty. Sign up. When God is with us, we are never outnumbered. “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).
 

• To put it another way, if God is for us, everybody else might as well be!
• A few is me. A few is you. A few is us! With God we cannot be stopped!

 
“But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God.’   I Corinthians 1:27-29
 
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord.” Zechariah 4:6
 
A Word For Your Week: You, and possibly a few, are all God needs to do what He has called you to.