It’s not typically the big things I worry about.  I know God provides, sustains, keeps, loves, and cares for me.  I have no qualms over my eternal destination.  But when it comes to the nitty-gritty details of life, that’s another story.   

I have appreciated Mary more and more as of late – as I stew over the inevitable need to make dinner.  Then there is hunting for things at the grocery store (not my area of expertise).  Cleaning the house… all that stuff!  Stirred up, caught up, and more than a little consumed… you’d never know I firmly believe God reigns over my life.  Because here’s the thing:  these things can quickly derail my dependence on God.

Listen, I know God is the God of details.  Have you seen a microscopic picture of a snowflake?  Or meandered through a flower garden?  There is just no doubt God is all about the details.  Did you know there are more than seventeen thousand species of butterflies, each with various patterns, two thousand types of fruit, each with unique flavors.  A thousand different vegetable varieties, and we’re just getting started.

Colossians 1:16–18 tells us that “all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities” by the Lord Jesus Christ.  “All things” doesn’t just include some things, but everything. Jesus holds power over all things, even the details tying me up in knots.  The fine points do not take Christ by surprise.  Ephesians 1:11 says that God “works all things according to the counsel of His will.”  This means that right now, God is working the particulars of life according to His will (not ours).  Yet we’re upside down and inside out due to the things we have no control over - but Christ is not only actively involved in everything around us, He’s also actively involved in all that’s within us.  “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13)

God’s promise of anything includes the things I understand and the things I don’t.  It consists of the mountains that look impossible to climb and valleys that feel too wide. My prayer for the church in these trying times, is that we’ll echo Job’s words, who after enduring much suffering, proclaimed before the Lord, “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.” (Job 42:2)   If Jesus can intricately weave the promise of the gospel through thousands of years of human failures, then I know He is able to handle my daily concerns.