All Things

I prayed over these eggs today. 

It may seem like a silly, pointless thing to pray about when there is suffering and war and the crushing tide of wickedness to pray about. But there is life in those eggs and life is valuable, because all life came from God Himself. My eyes —still swollen from praying about all the big things this morning— closed, as I laid my hands on these incubators and prayed for the little things.

I prayed that my little ducks would make it. That they would not die in their shell because they didn’t have the strength to make it out. I prayed that my turkey eggs were by some miracle fertile, despite the fact that the turkeys who laid them continually avoided the one who could make them fertile. And in that moment, I thought about how those prayers could easily be the very same prayers I could pray for the church. 

More times than I can recount, God has used the little things to teach me about the big things. He has used the mundane to teach me of the magnificent, and the overlooked things to teach me of the things that must be overcome. He is in every moment, every step, every breath. He is with us when we pour out our tears in prayer over the big things, and He is with us when we— with swollen eyes— whisper our prayers over the little things. 

Father, we praise You this morning for Your faithfulness. We thank You that You remain with us in all things, whether great or small. 

(Ps 66:17-20) I cried out to Him with my mouth and praised Him with my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; But truly God has listened; He has attended to the voice of my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!

(1 John 5:14,15) This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.

(Ps 89:1,2) I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations. I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.