day no. 15,554: using a highlighter to draw a crowd

"Samson killed a lion and said nothing about it. The Holy Spirit finds modesty so rare that He takes care to record it. Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, quoted in The Shadow of the Broad Brim by Richard E. Day

We are called to call attention to what God has done, is doing, and promises to do; not to what we have done, are doing at the moment, and promise to do. 

We should draw a crowd to the largeness of the One source of worth instead of drawing ourselves so large in the hopes of drawing a crowd. We should highlight His grace in the hopes of drawing a crowd rather than highlighting our names. If we use a highlighter to draw ourselves on a blank page, we barely stand out; but if we use it to highlight His words already on the page, we increase attention to the details of His glory.

It isn't that we should never speak of what we're doing in light of what God has done, but that we should speak of it less than we do. It isn't that we should only speak of what God has done, but that we could stand to speak of it more. There is no ceiling that says, "too much" when it comes to drawing attention to God's good works. There is no baseboard that says, "too little" when it comes to politely refusing to draw any more attention to our own.