LITTLE BITS OF CHANGE
“But these are gifted people,” you may say. Being gifted has very little to do with it. Maybe you and I haven’t been given those bursts of genius, those flashes of inspiration, the blessing of exceptional talent. Yet I believe that our journey toward spiritual maturity, our creativity along the way, consists of small, deliberate, sometimes unnoticed steps. Amy Carmichael once penned these thoughts: Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step by little bits of will, little denials of self, little inward victories by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph. There is no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.
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