Little Things | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 4, 1876

Little Things.

A WRITER in the Sunday-school Times says: “If we were placed before a loom, in which was an intricate piece of weaving, and should attempt, with unskilful hands to weave the web, what marring we should make of the whole plan. But if a master-weaver stood behind us, patiently directing every cast of the shuttle, how different would be the result. How the little threads of light and dark, over which we had been so impatient, would come out beautifully in the pattern. How the work would have been spoiled without them.

“So when we grow ruthless over the web of life we are weaving, and would cast out all the little threads of dark, taking the work in our own hands, let us remember what a marring we would make of even a piece of tapestry. How much less knowledge have we of planning a life that may last eternally. Let us try to realize that all these little threads, these small perplexities and vexations which so try us, are really important parts of the grand whole which the Master is working out for us.

“What we count the great events of life, the things we prepare for and think of the greatest importance, when they have passed by, often leave but a faint impress. Their influence over us is slight. But it is the little things in our life that are great in their results. Let us learn, then, properly to value them and rightly to improve them. God estimates them not as we do. The eternal principles involved, the results which stretch on forever he brings into the estimate. When we learn to look on the “small things” of life as of his appointment, then will they rise in our minds to their dignity and importance.”

“Little by little,” sure and slow, We fashion our future bliss or woe, As the present passes away. Our feet are climbing the pathway bright, Up to the region of endless light, Or gliding downward into the night, “Little by little and day by day.”