{"id":314,"date":"2008-12-04T13:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shieldsgroup.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-02-15T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T03:02:18","slug":"even-though-youre-small-youre-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/even-though-youre-small-youre-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Though You&#8217;re Small, You&#8217;re Important&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Most who know me know the blessing I&#8217;ve given my children since they were small. <\/strong> I&#8217;ve given it to my church family for a dozen years as well.  It goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are certain things in this world that God has for you to do &#8212; and you&#8217;re just the right person to do them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think that was original with me, but of course, it&#8217;s not. \u00a0The concept is proclaimed throughout God&#8217;s Word. \u00a0Rick Warren expressed it very well in his book, <em>The Purpose Driven Life. <\/em>I probably first came across it as a teen when my pastor gave everyone a copy of <em>The Four Spiritual Laws<\/em>, a gospel tract that has been used countless times to help countless numbers of people come to faith in God.<\/p>\n<p>Law number one goes something like this: <em>God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life<\/em>. \u00a0I like that.<br \/>\nGod loves you. \u00a0God has a plan for you. \u00a0It is true of us. \u00a0It was true of Israel \u00a0&#8212; \u00a0even the little town of Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this podcast we look at this truth about Bethlehem and apply it to our own lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6185\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-314-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3\">http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=314-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/mp3s\/amq\/2008\/holidays\/20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20081130GodsPlanForSmallThings.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most who know me know the blessing I&#8217;ve given my children since they were small. I&#8217;ve given it to my church family for a dozen years as well. It goes like this: There are certain things in this world that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/04\/even-though-youre-small-youre-important\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[195,501,149,101],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-godly-living","category-sermon-podcasts","tag-christmas","tag-mp3s","tag-podcast","tag-sermons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}