God in Small Places

One of the things I love about the Christmas story is that it teaches us to look for God in small places. Jesus was not born in a palace in Jerusalem – He was born in a stable in a little town, in the dead of night. His birth, though recognised by those who were looking for Him, was announced to those who were not. Simple shepherds looking at a star-lit sky saw something their hearts would never forget. They saw a choir of angels celebrating the birth of a child - a babe in a manger. The Creator of the world inhabiting the obscure, overlooked, and ordinary.  

We often look for God in the spectacular and miss Him in the mundane. We expect to see Him in the big, the important and the noble. God delights however to appear in small places; to use the common and forgotten to transform the ordinary. So often we pray for a “tree” and dismiss the “seed.” We ask for answers and overlook a promise. We seek the immediate and ignore the process.

As we experience Christmas and the start of a New Year, I pray that you will find God in the small places. The quiet moment at the start of the day, the unexpected blessing that comes your way, the moments of awareness of Presence, the love gifts along the way. Our God who is mighty and awesome loves to inhabit the small places of this earth, for in those places, He finds you and me.