If you think that what you do is a simple routine without significance, the story of Jesus’ first recorded miracle will be a morale booster. When they ran out of wine at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee, Jesus intervened to save the day. He asked them to fill the waterpots with water. That task fell on the servants, as our text indicates. I believe no one explained to the servants that the water they were told to fetch was going to be a raw material for a miracle. Nobody in the audience knew what was happening. The servants only followed the line of duty; later they discovered that they had been a part of great work.

Many of us are saddled with seemingly mundane task. Taken in isolation, we consider what we do as insignificant; and by extension, we feel little in ourselves. What we need to bear in mind is that the little things we are called to do can become something big when put in the context of God’s great plan. While we may not by ourselves do mighty things, God can take the little things we are capable of and make something big out of them. The servants could not in any way turn water to wine, but they could at least fetch it. In a similar vein, the lad who gave his lunch pack to Jesus could not multiply it to feed multitudes; he only did what he was able to do – he gave it. The issue is not whether what you are doing is small or big; rather it is whether you are doing it faithfully. The small job you are doing maybe somehow connected to a big miracle being worked out by God.