Doing the little things

You hear them say it all the time, coaches say, "We can win if we do the small things well." I share it a lot as well, that relationships work best if you do the small things well. On Father's Day we shared a message that included the importance of doing the small things for your family to make the big things more meaningful.
Well, it takes preparation as well. Many times we go to a football game, whether on Friday night at the local highschool, Saturdays at a collge campus, or Sundays in a professional stadium without realizing the amount of work that went into it.
I am the chaplain for a local highschool where the coaches look at film and game plan all weekend some times to have a scouting report ready for Monday so they can practice all week for the next opponent. This is very important, but what if they had the winning playbook already? What if they didn't even need to look at the opponents because their gameplan was that good? That rarely happens in sports, but for us as Christians it happens all the time.
2 Timothy 3 says,
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures,which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching,rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
So it is important that we recognize God's Word, use it and understand it. This is our great preparation for life as a believer. It isn't really the small stuff, but it is the simple stuff that will rescue us from evil and making bad mistakes in life. Reading, understanding and knowing God's Word is our greatest preparation for life.
Yesterday, I went to help a close friend move a refrigerator. They had pre-ordered it, and they had set up the place in their kitchen that it was going to go. But, when we got it to their house it wouldn't fit through the kitchen door, nor would it fit through the hall door. We in turn had to take it apart to get it in there. A little bit of preparation, 2 little measurements would have made all the difference in the world to us at 3:30 yesterday afternoon.
So, study the scriptures, learn them and know them so that you can be prepared for life's litle tests, and prove yourself to be equipped for every good work.