We always think about right now, but why not think about twenty years from now, or sixty years from now? Then you might say, I am not going to be here sixty years from now. Big deal! God will be, and he will still be carrying out his purposes. And so the stuff that you do now has reverberations and repercussions that go into the future beyond you. Why? Because God is the God of the long view. What about our church in twenty years? What if the Lord Jesus does not return and a hundred years from now our church still exists? What will it be? Well, the stuff that we build right now in our faithfulness is the stuff that God will use in his faithfulness, to perpetuate his glory and his cause in the world. And so, there are no small days; there are no silent years; there are no small things. God is doing what he does and he does it well. Those people that returned were a part of the puzzle which would bring about glory to God, and so are you.1
Brian Borgman
1 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.