We can learn a great lesson from the Old Testament story of Lot the friend of Abraham. Lot was never a great sinner. Lot never meant to p the service of God. He did anything that he thought seriously wrong. Yet he was found with the enemies of God, and very nearly suffered disaster with them. He would have "perished with the men of Sodom, had not Abraham inter ceeded with God for him.
"Is it not a little one?" said Lot.
But we see it did matter. It mattered tremendously. It decided his life and determined his destiny.
Why not take it the other way about?
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And let us up, grow up, the little things be good things. Then sew good seed. Fill your mind and the minds of others with thoughts and mental pictures that can only result in pure and healthy thoughts, and worth while deeds. Let us never despise the little things, but in thought, word, and deed, seek to be holy and pure and without reproach "Is it not a little one?"
Thank God for that! If it is bad, we can overcome it; and if it is good,—no matter how small it is—it is worth-while, because it will grow if we encourage it
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.