LUKE 12:32
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.”
Here Jesus seeks to give us courage to believe in God. As a matter of fact, He does this often. We could no doubt say that the aim of all that Jesus did was to persuade us to believe in our Father in heaven.
This seems easy enough to a conscience which is asleep, which is not aware of its guilt nor of God’s burning wrath against sin. But to the soul that is spiritually awake, that has become aware of the seriousness of sin, nothing is as hard, in fact, as impossible, as to believe that God forgives.
Indeed, such souls do not get courage to believe until they see Christ in the Word, the only one on earth who can give a sinner courage to believe in the forgiveness of sins.
“Fear not,” says Jesus today to all the fearful souls who condemn themselves. It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. He does not simply endure you; He rejoices to give you the kingdom. He who spared not His only Son, how could He do anything else but give you all things together with Him?
“Little flock,” He says.
He knows that we often feel discouraged and fearful just because we are so few and so weak. The contempt and opposition of the world would deprive us of our courage. It seems as though both we and God’s whole cause seem destined to be defeated by the mighty powers which are at the disposal of our opponents at all times.
Then He comforts us. He tells us that it is not dangerous to be the little flock. It is not dangerous to be in the minority. It is not dangerous to face adverse winds. It is not dangerous to encounter super-mighty opposition. It is not dangerous to be despised! For it is thus that it has pleased God to further His cause in this world.
“Fear not, little flock.”
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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