One Can Make a Difference

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Have you ever had the thought that I am only one person, how much of a difference can I truly make?

You have probably never heard of Edward Kimball.

It was the year 1855 in the city of Boston. Edward Kimball was a young Sunday School teacher who made it a habit to personally give each student in his class an opportunity to accept Christ as their Savior. He was concerned about one of his students who worked in a shoe store. One day, Kimball visited the young man at the store where he found him in the back stocking shelves and led him to Christ. That young man was Dwight L. Moody.

D.L. Moody become one of the greatest evangelists of all time. At Moody’s funeral service, Theodore Cuyler estimated that, on average, Moody spoke to 40,000 to 50,000 people a week. During one of his meetings, he traveled to England and awakened the heart of a young pastor —F.B. Meyer.

F.B. Meyer became one of the great Bible expositors, came to the U.S.A. and preached on college campuses, and was used to convert a student to Christ—Wilbur Chapman.

Wilbur Chapman attended one of Moody’s meetings in Chicago and became D.L. Moody’s coworker. Wilbur Chapman employed an ex-baseball player as his assistant—Billy Sunday.

Billy Sunday became a great evangelist and preached in Charlotte, North Carolina, and helped organize the Christian Business Men’s Committee (CBMC).

CBMC invited an evangelist to Charlotte; his name was Mordecai Ham.

Mordecai Ham preached in the tent meeting where Billy Graham was saved.

What is amazing is that God knew Edward Kimball. When he was faithful to be who God created him to be and share about the hope that he had in Jesus, God was able to use him to change the world. You never know how God’s plan for you is going to unfold. That person that you are faithfully discipling and investing in, may seem like just one to you, but may be the beginning of God’s much greater plan. Stay faithful, don’t give up! You are making a difference when you invest in God’s Kingdom! There is no other cause more worthy and more able to change the world than that one. You just might be the next Edward Kimball, who sets things in motion that ultimately leads to millions of people around the world hearing and accepting the Gospel.