Exodus 23:30
Little by Little
30 Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have increased enough to take possession of the land.
Proverbs 13:11
Little by Little Growth
11 Dishonest money dwindles away,
but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow.
We often want things to be easy in life...We often want things to happen immediately in life...But it seems that God has given us a little by little principle in our lives...This seems to be a form of patience in the learning of our life's experiences...
Take for instance the Hebrew people probably wanted their Promised Land given to them in an easier way...They did not want war or to battle and sacrifice for their land that God had promised them...Yet, they did...They had to little by little drive out the people on their Promised Land, until they were able to take possession of their land of Israel...No doubt the people of Israel sacrificed and felt the land that God had given them was more and much a part of them in the sacrifices they would make...And after their sacrifices and experiences, the land would seem like home, and their home country...
And as we work we often want immediate success and wealth, yet God wants us to little by little accumulate money over time this will make it grow, and we learn from the time of these long experiences what better to do with the money that accumulated over time...
Little by little takes more sacrifice than things that happen immediately...Little by little also takes patience...The little by little time consuming experiences, sometimes are the ones that we have most enjoyed or make life fuller, when we look back on these types of experiences...