Encouragement for When You Feel Like You Can’t Make a Difference

Cutting grass…one blade at a time… with scissors…can make it feel like you aren’t making much of a difference! Of course that’s not how I normally cut grass (especially not in this crazy April snow we got today!); but there are all sorts of things that can make us feel like we’re not having much of an impact. For those of you who don’t like snow, imagine trying to get rid of all of it one shovel full at a time! That’s probably about what we all feel like sometimes as we try to help with needs all around us. Instead of feeling hopeless or giving up in frustration, we can remember a simple idea from the life of Joseph. 

In Genesis 40, a butler and a baker get thrown into prison with Joseph who had obviously earned a reputation as an interpreter of dreams. Verse 8 says, “And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.”


Here was Joseph, in Egypt because his brothers had sold him into slavery and in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and he still faithfully did his part and allowed God to use him. He could have given up so many times, but he didn’t. Instead he stayed faithful, willing to be used for anything, realizing that results are up to God.


Never think your part is too small to make a difference. Joseph got to interpret the butler’s and baker’s dreams (and eventually the pharaoh’s dreams). He did his part, allowed God to use him, and saw God do some amazing things through him including eventually saving the known world from starvation. 


Life will sometimes seem as frustrating as trying to cut grass one blade at a time or get rid of acres of snow with a shovel, but we don’t need to give up. We need to keep doing our part and let God do His! He’s really good at it!


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