Take a perfectly
smooth pond, throw a pebble in it, and watch the ripple effect.
We never fully live
to ourselves. Our actions impact outside our own lives, outside of the
immediate moment. Whether you know it or like it, your life is
constantly making impact. This is the way God put it through Paul, our
responsibility to each other.
Take
a perfectly smooth pond, throw a pebble in it, and watch the ripple effect.
We
never fully live to ourselves. Our actions impact outside our own lives,
outside of the immediate moment. Whether you know it or like it,
your life is constantly making impact. This is the way God put it through
Paul, our responsibility to each other. Galatians 6:7-10.
Your
life is creating ripples. Ripples are always far larger than the
initial stone. In fact, one little stone can send ripples way across the
pond. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life,
to mind your own business, and to work with your hands, just as we told you.
1 Thessalonians 4: 11.
God understands our
tendency to become so enamored with the big and the awesome that we fail to
deal adequately with the everyday and the common. As a result, we end up
making far less impact with our lives. He completes that challenge by saying,
so that your daily life may win the respect of
outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4: 12.
This is not a challenge
to be mediocre. This is a challenge to do the everyday, common things
excellently.
Live
for the ripple, not the splash. When looking for ultimate impact, don’t
just look at point of entry. Look at the resulting ripples. They
are there. Can you see them? Do you know the ripples of your life?
You cannot throw the stone and avoid the ripple. Neither ignore them, nor
become discouraged because you can’t see them. Don’t become fascinated by
the splash, and ignore the ripple.
God
has created your life for impact. The natural response to the actions of
your life is that it will send ripple effects that move constantly out, away
from the life you are living and impact a greater and greater scope of the
world around you.
The
most basic way to live that out is do the right thing; it’s the simple power of
obedience. Do the right thing because the ripple effect will have impact
far beyond what you will know. God can do far more through you
being obedient than can ever be accomplished through your own willful attempts
to make a splash.
Live
daily for the Ripple and not the Splash.
(extract from http://crossconnectioninformation.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/280/
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