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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Years ago a very famous organist was giving a recital on a new organ.
The wind was pumped by a small boy behind a screen.
The boy pumped his heart out at this recital, and he was glad for the intermission half way through the program.
Out in the vestry of the church the boy looked up at the great organist and said, "Aren't we wonderful?"
Chilled with pride the iceberg responded, "Who's we?" Saddened, the lad returned to his pump for the climax of the recital.
The organist pressed the keys for the opening cord, but only silence came from the majestic pipes.
The signal must have failed the organist thought, and so he repeated it and then pressed again for the thunder to come.
No thunder came.
There was only a small voice from behind the screen saying, "Now who's we?"
We make a great blunder in life if we fail to recognize the importance of obscure, behind the scenes people.
Ida Tarbell, in the biography of many famous persons, was asked on her 80th birthday to name the greatest people she had ever met, and she replied, "Those nobody knows anything about."
Some of the greatest and famous people in the history book of God are obscure nobodies in the history books of men.
Sometimes it happens that obscurity is a blessing because it leaves a person free to give their life in service rather than in display.
The poet put it-
I'm nobody!
Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us-don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day to an admiring bog.
Author unknown
This can be a false sense of humility, and an excuse for not doing your best.
If we are going to be famous before God, even though obscure and unknown before men, we have to learn some basic truths about what our responsibility is, and what God can do through us.
We can learn these truths very simply by looking at the obscure little lad whose 5 loaves and 2 fish were the resource used for one of the greatest of all miracles.
We know very little about him, but that little can make a big difference in our lives.
All we know is that he had some loaves and fish, but two important truths stand out, which become principles for life.
First-
I. WHAT HE HAD WAS MADE AVAILABLE-HE GAVE IT.
The question is not, how much do you have, but is what you have available?
You don't have to have great wealth and ability to be famous with God, and useful to man.
The widow had only a mite, but in giving it she made all she had available for God's use, and this made her great in the eyes of Christ.
We know very little about one of the most famous persons in the Bible-the Good Samaritan.
We don't even know his name.
We don't know what he had in the way of material possessions.
All we know is that what he had was available.
He had time, compassion, and some degree of wealth, and God used him.
Others pass by who may have had more, but having is not the secret of blessedness, but giving is.
A lad with 5 loaves and 2 fish is not endowed with great resources.
"What are these among so many?"
We often feel that our talents and abilities are so few that it is futile to offer them in God's service.
The problems and needs are so vast that the magnitude of them overwhelms us.
We look at our gifts and say, "What are these among so many?"
We forget this basic truth that it is not just our ability that counts, but our availability.
God does not ask for what you do not have.
He only asks that you give what you have.
Jesus did not expect the lad to feed the five thousand.
All He needed was for the boy to give what he had.
It is up to us to do our best, and up to Christ to do the rest.
Be unselfish with whatever you do have, and you will be a famous giver in the eyes of God, and in the eyes of those who benefit from your making what you have available.
Marion Simms in Your Life told the story of a girl who wanted to give her older sister a birthday gift, but she had no money in her bank.
But that did not stump her, for the really unselfish person always has something to give.
When her sister opened her package she found an envelope tied with a ribbon.
Inside were three colored slips of paper with a gift printed on each.
Good for two dish washings.
Good for two bed makings.
Good for two kitchen scrubbings.
These were among her most welcome birthday surprises.
Like the little lad, this little lass didn't have much, but what she had she made available, and she gave it.
People are not equal in what they have, but they can be equal in making what they have available, and this is the key to being great in the eyes of God.
Next we want to see that-
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WHAT HE HAD WAS MADE ADEQUATE-CHRIST USED IT.
If we make what we have available, Christ will make it adequate.
God has built the process of magnifying the small and insignificant into the adequate right into His creation.
Give a seed to God's earth that could not even feed a bird, and it will be multiplied and made adequate for feeding a flock of birds.
A grain of wheat given to the earth, and its fruit in turn given to the earth, and constantly reinvested could eventually produce bread to feed 5 thousand, and even 5 million.
God can take our small investment, and our weak and inadequate gifts and use them to be a blessing to many.
Longfellow said, "Give what you have to someone.
It may be better than you dare to think."
Certainly this lad had no idea what Jesus could do with his little lunch, and we have no idea what He may do with what little we have if we make it available to Him.
Whatever you are, and whatever you have, Christ can make it adequate for blessing the world.
We need to believe this, and not cling to our gifts and abilities and selfishness.
We need to make them available for the glory of God and the good of man, as did this obscure little lad who became famous in God's history book.
A pilot of an American airline DC-6 was flying 21,000 feet over the Colorado Rockies when his plane threw a propeller which crashed through the fuselage and ripped the engine from the wing.
With half the controls gone he brought it into Denver for an emergency landing.
A reporter at the scene asked him what He did.
He said, "In a situation like that you just move over a little bit and let God take over."
None of us have enough to journey through this life and be a success for God.
All of us have at least one engine missing if not more.
We need to learn this lesson to move over a bit and let God take over.
The lad made what he had available, and Jesus made it adequate.
We need to do the same if we want to have the only fame that really matters.
Jesus adds His infinite resources to our inadequate resources to make the adequate, but He demands that we yield, and make our little available.
He does not ask of anyone what is impossible.
He asks only for what you can give if you will.
There were a lot of famous people in the world of that day when Jesus fed the multitude.
Possibly some of them were even in the crowd.
They may have been household names in their community, but it was this obscure and unknown lad who had the resource that Jesus needed.
Everyone of us has some resource that Christ needs to accomplish certain goals, and only as we make them available can the task be done.
Others may do a greater work,
But you have your part to do;
And no one in all God's heritage
Can do it so well as you.
I wonder how many of us ever realize that Jesus needs what we have.
Billy Graham will not reach those that God wants you to reach.
All the books, radio, and TV in the world will not do what God wants to do through you.
Jonah was a poor specimen of a prophet.
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