We often want really big things. Especially when we read the Bible. God told Noah to built an ark. Moses parted the Red Sea and was talked to by a burning bush. Jacob literally got in a fight with God. Joshua destroyed a city by walking around it. The disciples got to witness all the big things that Jesus did – water into wine, healing the sick, walking on water, feeding thousands, and more.
I think because of this we come to expect big things from God. We have these major expectations of God and how He is supposed to communicate to us. I know I do. I want clouds in the sky spelling out with perfect lucidity when I have to make a decision. I want talking shrubbery and waters to part and cities to crumble at my beck and call. I want there to be such perfect clarity, miraculous signs, and obviousness that no one can deny that God had a special place for me in His heart.
Sadly the real world isn’t like that, but it is not that God hasn’t done miraculous things in my life. More than that, He has constantly shown up in my darkest moments – just not in the ways I wanted him to show up. And that’s probably a really good thing.
But God is a lot bigger than me. And that’s an even better thing.
More than me, God is all about relationships. And relationships are all about little things. Sure there are big moments in my life, but it’s the everyday little things that maintain my relationships.
Little things are a big deal. Watch.
It's the little things that help us get through. The things we do on a daily basis that helps us survive. The psalmist opens up about it.
“They delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night.”
Day and night. And not this day and night.
I think this is a little thing that we all need to do.
It’s so easy to see a forest rather than the trees. I know that may sound cheesy and I apologize, but the simple truth is that we would much rather talk about the big than the monotonous. It’s the self-discipline of the “day and night” that leads to the big moments.
Noah would have never heard from God to build an ark if he hadn’t been diligent everyday in pursuing God; Moses never would have talked to a burning bush if he hadn’t been faithful to the daily grind of shepherding; Jacob would never have wrestled with God had he not been seeking forgiveness, Joshua wouldn’t have been able to lead the people into the promised land had he not been faithful in the everyday to the leadership of Moses. The disciples would have missed out on all that Jesus had done had they not taken the actual steps every day.
May we be faithful in the little things, and may we be able to see the grandness of God and His love for us in our ordinary, everyday lives.
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