What do you do? Are you striving for grandiose things? Fame and money may be elusive, but the influence is within your grasp. It’s about the impact you can have on others. Your sphere may be small, but it can also be powerful.
I think of Ed Kimbel, an ordinary Sunday School teacher of young men. One of his students didn’t know the Lord. So, on a Saturday, he decided to visit the young man in his workplace. Kimbell led the salesman to Christ in the backroom of a shoe store. The young adult would become world famous. His fame drew tens of thousands. His audiences were huge.
The interconnecting string of events is just beginning. Wilbur Chapman came to hear this ex-shoe salesman, and soon, he to would be a famous evangelist. One day, a professional baseball player came to hear Chapman. Billy’s conversion led him to quit baseball and succeed Chapman. His meetings, known as the sawdust trail, saw the conversion of another soon–to–be evangelist, Mordecai Ham. In one of his revivals in Charlotte, NC, a teenager would wander in to hear the message. Billy Graham came to know Christ because of those meetings.
If you read the stats of Graham, over two BILLION heard this man proclaim the gospel.
Mr. Kimbell couldn’t speak to a stadium full of people or stand before a television camera and broadcast his message to millions worldwide. However, he could enter a stock room and share the Good News to D. L. Moody.
You see, obedience to share can still start a chain reaction—one that has the potential to reach people and places that you will never see. Obedience starts with you. When you are the one, there’s no telling how great you will be in the eyes of God! Earthy fame isn’t important. You may be a nobody in the world’s eyes, yet, in God’s eyes, you are the one who will say yes to Him. That makes you a link to change the world.
