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God
Cares Big Time!
triv·i·a
n. Insignificant or inessential matters; trifles.
triv·i·al adj.
1. Of little significance or value. 2. Ordinary; commonplace. Synonyms:
Contemptibly unimportant, small, negligible, petty, inconsiderable, picayune,
niggling, paltry, piddling, small-minded, unconsidered, not of great importance,
little, inconsequential.
Recently my awareness
was turned to how many things I tend to relegate to the area of "trivial"
meaning that I give them little or no significance. Whether they be petty
annoyances or teeny blessings, my attention span toward them is about as
long as the life of a snowflake in August.
I wonder how much of
God’s hand in our lives we miss by doing this. Could that petty annoyance
be a miniature "trial" sent to perfect and polish a detail of our Christian
armor? Could that momentary blessing be sent as a messenger of God’s hope
alive in the most remote areas of our lives? I put this question to a friend
during some recent e-mail correspondence. My friend responded:
"Yes, if God knows the
number of hairs on our heads, then what can mankind call ‘trivial?’ The
hymn: His eye is on the sparrow and I know He’s watching over me*, comes
to mind....Unworthy ‘worms’ that we are, God has made us in His own image.
If everything about us were not significant, why would God want to be Lord
over everything in our lives lest He be Lord over something without worth?
However, until we come into the reality of these truths, life and everything
in it will continue to be ‘whatnot’ to many." (*A small side note: This
hymn was sung as a special solo in the following Sunday morning service,
just two days after this e-mail discussion occurred! A piddling coincidence,
you think?)
I sense a need to really
re-visit my concept of the trivial and adjust what I put there. I know
there are things that I think are really important and they’re really not.
Not because they’re trivial, but because they’re just not important. They
distract me from where I need to be focused: on Him. The opposite is true,
too.
If God made us--every
teensiest, weensiest bit of us--and is sovereign over our entire life all
the time, what about our lives dare we call trivial? Recent lessons I’ve
experienced have included seeing the Holy Spirit act in the smallest, most
fleeting things, showing me how much He cares for me by dealing with the
gazillion "little issues" of my life. He amazes me often by the way He
romances me and showers His love into every obscure corner of my being.
Jesus is very thorough in His loving.
As my friend stated,
"If everything about us were not significant why would God want to be Lord
over everything in our lives lest He be Lord over something without worth?"
Exactly! Beautiful! The thought sends chills of delight and amazement down
my spine and into my soul. Jesus loves me. He loves me aggressively, tenderly,
completely, unfailingly, everlastingly. God is big enough to have loved
me across the ages. He is small enough to love me in this very present
moment. He’s no ordinary God, and we, His children, are not just your ordinary
people! We are loved by the Greatest Lover in the universe, and viewed
by Him as precious and priceless beyond measure. Wow.
Let the morning bring
me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me
the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul. (Psalm 143:8, NIV) The LORD appeared to
us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have
drawn you with loving-kindness." (Jeremiah 31:3, NIV)
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