Article June 17, 1985 Issue

Learning to value the "small" things

MICHAEL D. RISSLER

A "taste" of evil can often seem innocuous enough. Adam and Eve must have thought so. But it was only later, when they were fully faced with the consequences of such indulgence, that they began to understand what their actions had wrought.

Small indulgence in evil, if indeed it can be called that, can seem excusable. We're seldom punished harshly for "small" mistakes. After all, human thought reasons, there are so many things worse!

But small things mean a lot, especially when we consider that the voice of Truth is likened in the Bible to a "still small voice." I Kings 19:12. That's how God's divine leadings came to Elijah in the midst of large turmoil. To Elijah, small things meant a lot, and that "still small voice" changed his life and touched some seven thousand others who had refused to bow down to the false gods of the day.

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