A very little thing

Today rain came down long and hard. Soon gullys were filled and streets were shallow rivers. Thunder echoed and everything else quieted. Then a frog would croak – overjoyed by the gift of water.

I closed my eyes and listened, thinking: what do I hear, feel, smell? The melody of God in charge of the wind and rain – the storm – calmed my thoughts to focus on HIm. When I opened my eyes, the world was wet – downspouts bubbled streams of water, puddles formed in every low spot.

I’ve never lived where it snows, but I understand there’s a certain hush. Whenever God does what only He can do, man has a choice – take the time to immerse in it or keep up the noisy business of life. “For in Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28a BSB)

How hard it is for us to grasp that our very next breath is a gift from the Lord. If He weren’t holding all of us together every millisecond, we would cease to exist. For example: when an atom nucleus has two positive charges, it means there are two protons present. Protons are the only subatomic particles with a positive charge and reside in the nucleus of an atom. These two protons repel each other due to their like charges. What keeps the nucleus together? Scientists can split it and make an atomic bomb – but they cannot replicate two positive charges and keep them from repelling each other.

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?” (Luke 12:25-26 NIV) To God, adding an hour to our lives is a ‘very little thing’ – but something we try to achieve every day. Eating right, exercising, doctors, mindfulness, and on it goes – all good things, yet forgetting Who holds time in His hands.

As every snowflake is different, each of us is even more unique. There is no other you. Fingerprints, blood, thoughts… Known by God before time even began.

As broken as things may seem to us, in our own lives and this world, Jesus fixed them all – once and for all time.

Sure, we still walk this hurting earth – but He reminds us: “I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33 NIV) Someday, dear one, all this will end, Jesus will return – and if you know Him as Savior, you will go on forever and there will never be anymore brokenness.