My next-door neighbor gave Pat and me a beautiful plant that began blooming shortly after we received it. Beautiful blooms, but they are very small. Some would classify them as tiny. But, even in their small size, their beauty lightens up the surrounding.
Just like individuals, some have an enormous influence over many individuals, while others have a smaller influence. It is not the size of the influence that matters, but the quality. You can either brighten a room when you enter or darken it with your presence?
Just because a person does not have a significant influence or social outreach, their inward beauty can have a tremendous impact on those whom they come in contact with daily. I remember one individual whose influence, attitude, and words would brighten any room regardless of where it was located. She carried a smile and a kind word wherever she went. Did she have a huge social influence? No, she didn’t. But, those who were around her say the beauty in her heart and life when she came around lifted others up.
Maybe today, you think that you don’t really matter because you don’t have a huge social media following or large group of friends. But when you have the precious love of Jesus in your heart, you will brighten the rooms you enter. Remember, it is not how big the bloom is, but how it brightens the surrounding area. Let your love and care brighten those you come in contact with each day.
1 John 3:18 KJV “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
1 Timothy 4:12 KJV “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
