Growing up in our single wide mobile home always made for a small place for three young elementary boys to play. One day my friends Les and Brad came over after school. We decided we were going to have a pillow fight. We all three chose our pillow and begin to swing as hard as possible.
Keep in mind that Les and Brad are twice my size…or they were then. I used to be a scrawny little elementary school kid.
Les, the bigger of the three, picked up a feather pillow and begin to swing it rapidly. I did not think that a feather pillow could hurt me so badly, until he gave me the fatal blow to the head.
He hit me so hard with a feather pillow that it knocked me out cold.
Who would’ve ever thought that a feather pillow could have knocked someone unconscious?
Here is what I learned from that pillow fight.
One feather may be light and soft to the touch. As an individual feather, it is a nondestructive item. But when you compact thousands of light things together they become a deadly force.
And so it goes with all the small or light circumstances that are being allowed to impact your life and ministry. They all begin to compact together until one day they deal a deadly blow to your life and knock you out of your marriage, father/motherhood, or ministry.
When I was a pastor, I had many feathers fall all around me. I ignored them. I also paid the price.
Here a few things to consider as feathers in your pillow case:
- It may be showing up 5 minutes late to your child’s piano recital.
- It may be missing to many ball games.
- It may be one too many drinks.
- It may be flirtation with the church secretary.
- It could be your spouse asking you to help more around the house and it going unsatisfied.
- It could be your church employees distancing themselves from you.
- It could be your son or daughter asking if you have to go back to the church office.
Whatever your feather, be aware that it may be a light thing right now, but be assured they are compacting on you everyday that you do not manage them.
That which we are contending with may seem light, but when many light things are compounded they take you down.
