The God of Small Things

Proverbs 30:24-28 There are four things on the earth that are small but very wise: Ants are small and weak, but they save their food all summer; badgers are small animals, but they make their homes in the rocks; locusts have no king, but they are able to work together; lizards are small enough to catch with your hands, but you can find them living in kings’ palaces.

Let me ask you: What are the things in your life that matter to God? If you had to put a list down the left-hand side of the page of the things that matter to God, and a second list down the right-hand side of the things that don’t, what would be in those two lists?

Most of us imagine that God is only interested in big things; wars, politics, religion … but the little stuff … nah, He doesn’t have time for that.

Some years back my wife and I landed into Chicago’s O’Hare International, one of the busiest airports in the world. And after the long flight from Australia, you guessed it, they’d lost her suitcase. Worse still, I had to fly straight on to Minneapolis, so she went to the hotel alone with nothing.

By the following day, when I flew back into Chicago, they still hadn’t found her luggage. And then, after waiting for over an hour with everyone else, we were told that our whole plane’s luggage was on the wrong carousel. Sure enough, we raced down there and there was my bag going round and round with all the others. But just as I turned around from picking it up, on the very next carousel, just in the right place at the right time, there was Jacqui’s bag from yesterday, on a Friday afternoon in one of the busiest airports in the world.

And people think that God’s not interested in the small stuff.

He doesn’t miss a thing!

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.

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