I'm just gonna first off start out with saying if you haven't already... go buy Sandra Stanley's book "The Comparison Trap", I just finished it and it was A M A Z I N G.

So I'm here to talk about the words I read today in Week 3, Day 3 of the devotional. It starts out with the story we probably all know pretty well, the boy with the 5 loaves and 2 fish from Galatians 5:26. We look at this and are floored by the miracle Jesus performs. But as Sandra says, "What about the boy?"

I took a second to really think about the young boy who brought the food to Jesus and saw it multiplied right before his eyes. The boy came humbly and gave his seemingly small offering to Jesus and watched him do immeasurably more with what he gave Him. Sometimes I find myself thinking "What do I really have to give to God?" I'm a college student, so I don't have thousands of dollars to give to the church. But I though about one thing that seems to become increasingly more valuable as life gets busier... time. People devote time to things they truly care about, so if we truly care about impacting the Kingdom of God, we need to give our time to that. That doesn't just mean squeezing in a service project once a month because you have an open day, but it is about being deliberate about scheduling time to serve and to advance the Kingdom of God.

We need to remember that God can use our seemingly small things to have a huge impact on the world. What we have is less important than what we do with what we have.

"Let's fight the feeling that our little bits could never go far enough. Let's instead trust God to make it astoundingly more."