The Galapagos Islands, just like Madagascar, are one of the few places where there are so many native animals, and creatures don’t exist anywhere else. On the island, there are many colonies of beetles. But there is a particular colony of beetles that is so important to the ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands that if it ever happened, that particular colony of beetles went extinct. Within about 20 years, the entire ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands would implode. Here is the thing, nobody comes to the islands to see those beetles. But they’re so critical to the functioning of every other piece of the ecosystem. Something so small and disproportionality insignificant can be so massively important. 

I think if you want to start a worldwide movement, your language is really important and would have been good if you Jesus could have used the word picture of tsunamis and seismic shifts, but instead, the language he chose was the disproportionate impact of small things of salt and light, in yeast, and seeds. Either he didn’t use the right language, or he understood something that we don’t easily understand. And since he created the operating system of the universe, I’m going to go with him. You see, it is the nature of a seed, both to die and to be small and give a disproportionate impact.

I often we can think, “I have to do big things for God, or I’m not doing enough.” And God’s reminder is there is a disproportionate impact of small things.

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin.

Zechariah 4:10