The Bible is full of people who ended up changing the minds of kings—and many of them were young.

Joseph was a teenager when he was carried off to Egypt, and he grew up to advise Pharaoh himself. Daniel was probably a teenager when he was taken to Babylon, and he became the trusted counselor of the most powerful king in the world. Esther was a young woman when she walked into a throne room and saved her entire nation. We’re not exactly sure how old Jonah was, but he was still just one man with one simple message that changed a king.

None of those people had an army. They just had God, and a place where He’d put them. It’s easy to think you’re too young or too small to make a real difference. But you can actually do a lot! You have a circle of people who see you every day: teammates, classmates, neighbors, siblings, the kid whose locker is next to yours, your grandparents. Some of those people are watching how you handle losing a game, or how you talk about the kid who isn’t there, or what you do when the teacher leaves the room.

Jesus called it being salt and light—you make things better and you help people see. And nobody in the Bible ever had to grow up first to start doing it. So think about the little ways you can show God to the people around you, that you see all the time. You can change a lot of things—no matter how small you may be!

Think About It: Make a mental list of five people who see you almost every day. Now think about this: if those five people learned everything they knew about God by watching you this week, what would they have learned?