The God of (Even Small) Details

At times in the Bible, we read God giving detailed instructions to His people. Reading over Exodus 12 and the "Passover" instructions, I'm taken back a bit by the detail God goes into.

This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. -Exodus 12:11

But then I am reminded that I serve a detailed God. 

When you think about people you hold close relationships with, what comes to mind? When I think of my dearest and nearest of companions or my family members, I think about these individual's details, characteristics, mannerisms, habits, and ways that are so unique to each one of them. There are things about each of these people that distinguishes them greatly from the next. And if I were to describe each one to you, you'd hear that right away. They all have intricate detail. They have "their way." They are set apart and they are different from each other.

Hm, And God...

What about Almighty Jesus?

He is different! I hear him whisper over me heart this evening, "I'm different. I'm set apart. I'm your friend. I care deeply. I see and know your inmost and love you still. I am pursuing you. I am involved. I am your friend."

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. -Proverbs 18:24

WOAH! What kind of detail do you pay attention to in my life, Lord? You are so different from the rest. You are so aware and all-knowing and wise. Do you care about the small attitudes and under-my-breath/unspoken fits of rage and frustration? Do you care about a moment I can choose to love or stick up for or defend the weakest person in the room?....And do you hurt when I choose to stay silent? Do you listen to my weakest cry for help, when I am not feeling like a spiritual warrior woman? (ha!) Do you know my favorite this or that? Do you see through my cover and past my excuses and look right straight at the motive of my impurities and heart? O, God! I believe you are more active then I credit you for. Wow. Forgive me.

Search me, God, and know my heart;

    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting. -Psalm 139:24

Lead me in the way everlasting! Soften my heart that I will follow, that i will go with you! I want to walk in immediate obedience.

Grace