LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

II. Little Things that Make for CHARACTER
"My father, if the prophet had bid you do some great thing, would you
not have done it?" 2 Kings 5:13
Consider the words of kindly caution and of well-merited rebuke
spoken by the servant of the leprous Naaman, who, seeking a remedy
for his diseased condition from the prophet Elisha, refused, in a rage, to
follow the simple condition: "My father, if the prophet had bid you do
some great thing, would you not have done it?"
Your disease is loathsome--but your pride, your false notion of the use
and benefit of great things, is still more to be loathed. Rise above the
narrowness and bigotry and blindness, and find hope and health, not
alone in the waters of Jordan, but in the clear, pure air of submission, of
obedience, and faith in God. Naaman had wealth in abundance; would
not some great gift be better than some little act? He had great power;
would not some exhibition of that power upon the enemies of Elisha's
God be more acceptable than a surrender of self?
The world is always overestimating "great things"--and undervaluing
simple things. Those things that are really great, which hide their
greatness from us by their very unappreciated and unrecognized
nearness--are often passed over, in the vain effort of mankind to do the
"great thing," as men note greatness.
"The best things are always within reach." Study that statement. Let it
have the closest scrutiny and the largest application. "The best things
are always within reach." These best things, then, must be little things,
and these little things must make for greatness, here or hereafter.
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