Thursday, August 29, 2013

day 1211: Alot From Nothing

I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.

I am amazed at how excited Patti gets from the discount she gets off of her gas from her grocery shopping.  At our place in Rhode Island, Stop-n-Shop gives a discount on cost per gallon at participating gas stations.  The most I have seen the discount add up for redemption has been $.60/gallon.  A ten gallon fill up equals a $6.00 discount.  Not bad, or so it seems. To get to that $6.00, she has to spend $300.00 in groceries.  So, one way to look at it is that this value is really more like getting a 2% rebate.  The beauty of this program is that they have transferred a savings from something expected to something not expected. The point here is that for very little, the positioning has significant perceived value to the consumer.  It begs the question, what do we have in our business that when transferred to some other area where discounts, sales or rebates would be unusual, that it would be perceived as very high value. 

Faith is like this.  Jesus tells us that all we need is faith the size of a mustard seed to reap and receive any and all that we need.  If we approach all that we are faced, then we can reap so much from just a very little. What is it that stops us from perceiving and realizing the amazing value that God has given each of us through faith? 

Reference: Matthew 17:20 (New Living Translation)

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