Already at Work

Purpose doesn’t wait until you’re grown. A five-year-old in Arizona with a flock of chickens and a generous heart proves God starts His work early, and He never stops.

For you have been my hope, Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth.
Psalm 71:5 NIV

At just five years old, Cameron raises chickens, collects eggs, and sells them to his neighbors. And when he had money in his hand, he didn’t ask for a toy. He asked if he could give it away to help feed a child he’d never met.

His mother, Kristen, calls him her miracle baby. Hearing him sing along to worship songs in the car, watching him decide that his egg money belongs to someone who needs it more—she’s seeing God do something she never imagined. She’s just bearing witness to it.

Psalm 71, written by someone near the end of life, looking back over decades of God’s faithfulness, points to how God has been his hope since his youth. The confidence started early—quietly, ordinarily, in the years before the writer even had words for what God placed in him.

Kristen is watching her Sovereign LORD at work in Cameron’s life, planting hope and generosity in soil that is five years young.

God starts to work in the earliest, smallest moments and builds from there.

The seeds of your own calling were put in the ground long before you recognized them: the thing that made your heart move at age seven. The question you couldn’t stop asking at twelve. The way you’ve always felt something when you heard a certain kind of music, or saw a certain kind of need.

You weren’t imagining it. That was God, working. That was your Sovereign LORD, already present, already forming something in you that He intended to use.

The felt need underneath “there must be more” is often a longing to recognize what God has already been doing. And the good news is that He has been doing it all along—since your youth, since the earliest days, in every ordinary moment that seemed like it didn’t count.

As you stay attentive to what God has already put in you, you can trust that the One who started that work is the same One committed to finishing it.

Today’s One Thing
Think of one thing—from childhood or early in your faith—that always seemed to matter to you more than it made sense to. Write it down. Ask God to show you how He’s been building on it ever since.

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