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I was around the breakfast table with my little ones a few weeks ago and we were discussing the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand (Matthew 14). It is a story I have heard a hundred times or more, but this day it was different. As I was reading from our Jesus StoryBook Bible, my throat caught as I paused to consider the significant yet quiet role the mother of the boy with the five loaves and 2 fishes played in the story. Suddenly, I could picture her quietly packing her young son's lunch and sending him out of the house for the day in a quiet, ordinary, arguably "mundane" act of service to her family. And yet...how significant a contribution it was to the multitudes that day! If it were not for that faithful mother packing her son's lunch, he would have had nothing to offer Jesus when He asked His disciples to feed all those hungry people listening to His Sermon on the Mount that afternoon. How Jesus multiplied that small gift of service and used it to perform a miracle recorded for the ages! What influence that mother had that day! It made me stop and ponder throughout the day...what small acts of motherly and "mundane" acts of service could the Lord use and multiply in my life and in the lives of my children today? What about you, dear friend? What humble acts of service could God use in your home or workplace today...acts that might go unnoticed by most, but could be used in miraculous ways to nourish God's people and advance His Kingdom? Let us never underestimate the power our God has to use and to multiply the "ordinary" things He calls us to do throughout our day!
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