Big God in the Smallest Ways

"God will help you in even the smallest ways. We should live expecting it and refuse to ever give up."

I ASKED MY BROTHER FOR HELP changing my brakes once. He is an auto mechanic in his spare time. Long story, but he’s actually a computer guru who discovered he can fix things. That said, he agreed to change them for me. I learned something while watching him. When he ran up against a way that wouldn’t work, he simply changed what he was doing. He never gave up. He never considered giving up but knew there was a solution, he had only to find it.

Would that we applied this to ourselves. Even if we get exhausted sometimes in the effort, we sit down and rest with the intention to get up again and keep trying.

I heard one woman of God say for days she’d had a persistent, strange pain in her side, and, over time, she convinced herself she was dying. Then, one morning, the Holy Spirit told her to go check her bra. She couldn’t believe He would say this but obeyed, and found out the one she was wearing had an underwire stabbing her in the side.

Now, this seems too personal, and it is. But the point of both stories is that God will help you in even the smallest ways. He often does things for us that we aren’t aware of. Behind the scenes. We should live expecting it and refuse to ever give up, knowing He cares for us.

Why did He tell that woman that? Because He knew she would listen and hear Him. And He knew the way forward in that situation you faced was by going left and not right. He simply needed you to refuse discouragement and exercise patience. And that other time, maybe the time lapsed too quickly, and you missed your opportunity. God will redeem the time for you. Once, after the prayers of the prophet Isaiah, He actually moved the sun backward. No amount of time nor any size of your circumstance is outside of His ability to change.

So you missed the deadline. He has another way. So you tripped up and it didn’t go smoothly. He will carve a whole new path if He has to. When we lean on Him, there is only one ending – success. Change your mindset. Not, “I just can’t do this,” but instead, “Okay, so here’s a brick wall. God’s about to provide a ladder. Or knock it over.” No obstacle is really an obstacle at all when we rely on Him.

He will, in fact, part the entire ocean if He has to.

“And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.” (2 Kings 20:11)

“Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” (Luke 12:27)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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