”You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.“
Matthew 5:14 KJV
When my brother and I were young, we used to enjoy skipping rocks on the water. The farm where we grew up was bordered by a river, and we also spent much of our summers at a nearby lake, so we skipped more than our fair share of rocks. Sometimes when the rock didn’t skip the way we intended, it would just sink and send out ripples in all directions.
At some point when I was growing up, I heard someone use the common metaphor of influence spreading like ripples on the water. The image of impacting ripples reminds me of this Bible verse. Even a tiny flame can cut through the blackest of surroundings, changing not just the view or the visibility, but the possible outcome of a situation in much the same way that a single pebble can impact a massive surface of water.
Too many times, we discount the little aspects of life as if they hold no intrinsic value. Merely seeing how much something we consider irrelevant can affect something much larger should change our perspective on such “small” details. God values and uses those seemingly unimportant things just as much as what we might consider the larger, obvious ones.
It is beyond our cognition to see the world as God sees it with all of the intricacies that He has created and incorporated to work out for His purposes. He even knows the very hairs of each of our heads, so we can trust that even the smallest incidents or details of our lives are not there by accident. He has a plan, and He is always working, so don’t hesitate to throw that pebble and light that match when you are led to do it.