The Little Things

Two years ago we moved into the house we currently live in...in February. It snowed all night, the night before, and I woke up to it still snowing. I began to pray before I even got out of bed that it would stop snowing just long enough for us to get moved, then I didn't care if it snowed the rest of the day! We began to load the first truck at 9:05am and....at 9:04 it had stopped snowing. We finished the last load at 12:00 and...it started snowing again at 12:30. That's right, it didn't snow one flake the entire time we moved! Little on God's radar, huge on mine!

I remember hearing a story when I was a little girl about my grandpa. He was a preacher but he was also in construction. I heard the story that he and his workers had poured a foundation for a building and before it had time to set a threat of rain came; my grandpa had his workers join him to surround this foundation and begin to pray over it, asking God to keep the rain from it. It rained all around them, but not on the foundation! Little on God's radar, huge on my grandpa's!

I don't think we have any problem going to God with what we think are big problems, we don't have any trouble crying out to him in times of our deepest needs. And we don't seem to have any problem giving Him the credit when something huge happens that can't seem to be explained any other way outside of a miracle.

But what about the small things? The small problems. The small miracles. Small to us...so do they matter to God? Should we bother Him with our "stupid little issues"? Should we think that He'll take the time to do something about ANYTHING we talk to Him about?

YES!

“The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children” (1 John 3:1). His children. If you've accepted Christ as your Savior, then you're a Child of God. And as His child, He cares about what you care about. Even the little things. Don't we as parents care about what matters to our own children? If they come to us with a worry, with a desire, with a goal don't we spend time talking with them about it, helping them figure out how to achieve it, the steps needed to make it happen? Well...again I remind us of what it says right there IN THE BIBLE...“The Father has loved us so much that we are called children of God. And we really are his children” (1 John 3:1).

So, yes talk to God about the little things. If it's important to you it's important to Him! And then, give Him the credit when it works out!!