When the Bible Thumps you.

Sometimes you’ll be reading a book, and something leaps out off the page that you missed the first time. I was amidst a very busy week, and as a team we were coming off the biggest event in our churches history. Tired and exhausted we had an epic meeting, and I think many of us realized that we had a mountain of stuff to process and get ready for the new year.

I now start to become more aware of my limitation and when I feel the stress levels build I actually stop, pause, dis-engage and spend time with God. My goal is not avoiding the problem, it’s getting my head on straight before I decide to solve it.

Believing that God can move mountains has been our most recent series, and it was excellent. Then I started reading 2 Kings after this meeting to get my head straight. I hit this passage and it blew me away…

2 Kings 6

“The company of the prophets said to Elisha, “Look, the place where we meet with you is too small for us. ²Let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a pole; and let us build a place there for us to live.”

And he said, “Go.”

³Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?”

“I will,” Elisha replied. ⁴And he went with them.

They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. ⁵As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh, my lord,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”

⁶The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw it there, and made the iron float. ⁷“Lift it out,” he said. Then the man reached out his hand and took it.”

This was such a good reminder that God can move mountains, but he is also deeply involved in our lives. Sometimes we just lose someone else’s axehead and because he loves and knows us, he is willing to help us out. The same guy who creates the universe and breathes out stars, is willing to make an axehead float because he knows us. God is big picture, and he is also there in the microscope with the little things.

So don’t sweat the little things, because God is there to help to. Sometimes it is the bunch of little things that builds a really big mountain.