Until the Smallest Thing

Daily Devotional | 12 Jun 2025

Until the Smallest Thing

Have you ever thought about how an architect designs a city? He not only draws the main roads and grand buildings, but also pays attention to the little things: drainage, wind direction for air circulation, even the position of trees for maximum coolness. Every detail is carefully considered, because for him, all parts are important, big and small. Such is the message we can capture through God's answers to Job. When Job in his pain and struggle waited for an answer, God did not begin by explaining human suffering. Instead, He opened the conversation with a parade of creation, from heaven to earth, from thunderbolts to ravens, from deer to donkeys. This is not because God is indifferent to Job's struggles, but rather because He wants to reveal a broader divine dimension: God's comprehensive and caring involvement in all of His creation.


After describing His omnipotence over the universe, God takes Job to witness the world of wild animals. Among them, lions hunting for food at night, hungry crows crying out for food, deer conceiving and giving birth without human witness, wild donkeys living freely in the wilderness, and mountain goats that humans cannot tame. All these creatures live beyond man's control, but not beyond God's care. He provided food for them, timed their births, provided a place for the free, and showed that every creature — wild, small, and hidden — is in His knowledge and care. God wanted to teach Job that He is not only all-powerful, but also all-caring. He creates and sustains, organizes and maintains. Even things that are insignificant to humans, such as the cry of a crow or the laughter of a wild donkey, He never ignores. If so, how can we doubt God's care for our lives?"


Friends of the Bible, we live in a world that often judges by what is big, visible, and beneficial. But in the divine order, even the hidden and small are taken into account. God hears the quiet voice, cares for the marginalized, and sustains the invisible. God works in all seasons and rhythms of life, even in times we don't understand. Like the deer that gave birth on the mountain without human supervision, but was able to make it all work, so God works in the silence and unexpectedness.



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