One Sunday morning I was sitting in my car in front of the church, listening to the opening worship song. The clear, beautiful voice of Sarah was softening my heart and awakening me to the presence of the Holy Spirit. It was raining softly and my windshield was mottled with small orbs of water droplets.
As it continued to rain, Sarah sang: “I see the evidence of you through all of my life…” My attention was drawn to the raindrops slowing accumulating on the windshield, but suddenly some would break free and stream down the glass. By themselves the droplets seemed anchored to the glass, stuck in place. But as I watched and waited, new raindrops filled in the spaces between and slowly the droplets aggregated with neighboring rain drops, until they reached a size, a weight, where gravity overcame surface tension, and the droplets become rivulets of water that streamed down the windshield, sweeping up and taking along all the droplets that were in its path as the stream of water gushed downward.
When the breaking point, the tipping point, is reached, it happens quickly and many in the path are swept up and taken along with all the others. When the droplets first land and are slowly accumulating, it appears not much is happening, but the potentiality is great and just one small addition makes all the difference.
You can be that one small addition that causes something unpredictable and good to happen, whether by your prayers, your presence, your gifts, your service, or your witness. Be faithful in your commitment to the church and trust in God to use your small contribution to do something great. See the potentiality, the wonderful thing that is about to happen, and be faithful.