Make the Big Time Where You Are!

Marty Mayer • Mar 02, 2021

Coaches Encouragement

"I am just an assistant coach. I don't feel I can make a big difference."

"I just got out of college. This is my first year. I don't feel I can make a big difference on this team."

"I'm just a coach at a very small school. I don't have the influence that coaches have at larger schools."

Maybe you have said or thought those things at one time in your career. Maybe right now you feel like you are not able to make a big difference or as big a difference on your team as before.  

Let's look at the story of a young woman who did an amazing thing for Jesus. And it really caught His attention.

"Jesus was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper. As He sat at table, a woman came in carrying a small bottle of very costly perfume, oil of pure nard. She broke it open and poured the oil over His head." (Mark 14:3)

Notice that the bottle was small but the contents were costly. And she poured those costly contents over the head of Jesus.

It is not the size of the bottle that is important. It is the contents of the bottle that matter.  

You may see yourself in one of those earlier mentioned positions ("just an assistant...just a first-year coach...coach of just a small school"). You may feel those are "small bottle" situations, but if you will pour yourself out on Jesus, it will change the world.  

It's not how much you give to Jesus; it's a matter of whether we will give Jesus all we have.

I'll bet there wasn't any perfume left in the bottle after the lady poured it out on Jesus. In fact another translation says that the lady "broke it open." She broke the bottle.

When I was in high school my two favorite colognes were Royal Lime and English Leather. Sometimes I put on a bit too much and you could smell me coming from a distance. (Actually, I could never put on too much of English Leather. That was my first favorite!)

Coach, you can make a difference whatever your role is or how little experience you may have or whatever the size of the school is at which you coach. Just give everything to Jesus and see what happens. And if you want, pour on an extra splash of your favorite cologne and see if anyone notices!

Lord, I feel like a small bottle sometimes but I know what is on the inside can make a big difference. I break myself open for you and Your Kingdom. Help me to smell up the place with the fragrance of You.

p.s. Coach, I will let you borrow my English Leather leather, if you don't have any cologne at home! 


Marty Mayer
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