When Big and Little Get All Mixed Up

I'm sure you've heard the saying, “Making a mountain out of a molehill".  It’s when we make a big deal out of the small and inconsequential.  It’s when we take something that’s relatively unimportant and make something extremely important out of it.

Like...

When a friend walks past you in the store without stopping to talk. Did I do something to offend her?  What’s her problem, anyway?  (In reality, perhaps she was just temporarily zoned out... lost in thought, and walked past you without even seeing you.)  I’m sure I’ve done that!

When you go off your diet for a weekend (OK, it was four five days), and you feel totally defeated. You'll never lose that weight. Why even try?   
Where’s that bag of chips?

When your child spills a cup of juice on your just-washed kitchen floor.  And you explode. And then you feel like the worst mom 
in the whole world.  {And your poor child 
will probably need years of therapy!}

We waste so much time, attention, and emotion on things that just don't matter.  

And, isn't that just the game that satan likes to play?!

If he can keep us worrying over that which God will take care of, he's thrilled.

If he can keep us angry and focused on a perceived wrong, he's ecstatic.

It's so important for us to pray and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal our faulty thinking.  

We really need to stop making the little so B.I.G!

For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him,

but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 1:23

Now, have you ever heard the saying, “Making a molehill out of a mountain”?  NO?  Neither have I.  So, I get to write the definition! :)  It’s when we make something really important into something unimportant. It’s when we make a small deal out of something big and of great consequence.

Like...

When you don’t get a chance to take a shower (for days) because you’re busy nursing (literally) your sick baby.

When your teenager spills the orange juice all over your just-washed kitchen floor and you don’t explode.  You simply ask them to clean up the mess, and go on.

When you take a few extra minutes to listen to the woman in Wal-Mart tell you about her pending foreclosure.

When you patiently listen to your husband talk about the problems at work... again.

I was at an event several weeks ago and introduced myself to a group of ladies.  As I went around the table I shook each woman’s hand and enjoyed a brief conversation with each one.  Later that evening one of the just-met ladies came up to me and thanked me for not quickly dropping her hand when I shook it.  At first, I didn’t know what she was referring to.   

Then I remembered that she had a severely misshapen hand that I had continued to gently hold as I talked with her.  Quite honestly, I didn’t think anything of it.  It was a little thing to me. But not to her.  To her, it meant that I wasn’t repulsed by her different-than-mine hand.  To me, it was a molehill.  To her, it was a mountain.

I think most of our days are made of what we would term, inconsequential, unimportant, boring, little... molehills. But God doesn't see what we see. What we call a molehill, He sees as a mountain. Each time we do the 'little', He sees the big in it.  

He sees you showing kindness to a stranger.

He sees you sacrifice a shower to feed your baby.

He sees you going to work every day to a job that you don't like.

He sees you raising the next generation to love and worship Him.

He sees you opening your Bible when you just want to go to bed.

He sees you being quiet when you want to argue with your husband.

He sees that you drop everything to listen when your teenager decides to talk.

He sees you sitting on the floor with your grandchild, just hoping that you'll be able to get 
back up. :)

Yes, He sees the BIG in the little!

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord and
not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from
 the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."   
Colossians 3:23,24

Are you making mountains out of molehills?  
What things are you making bigger than they need to be?
Are you making molehills out of mountains?
What seemingly insignificant thing have you done 
lately that you didn't see as a big deal... 
But God saw the BIG in the little?
I'd love to hear from you!
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 Living in His grace,

  Mary  

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