Seeing the "Little" Miracles

Deuteronomy 8:4, NIV

Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

Deuteronomy 29:5, NIV

Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

God did plenty of big, extravagant, extremely visible miracles when He brought His people out of Egypt and through the wilderness. 

He sent the plagues and parted the sea.

He brought water from a rock and food from Heaven. 

He showed up in fire on the mountain and caused the ground to shake.

He split open the earth and swallowed up the wicked.

Powerful, visible, extravagant miracles.

And then there were the miracles mentioned in the verses above—a couple of quick little sentences thrown in among a plethora of others. A couple of seemingly “little” miracles which occurred every single day, over and over again, but which were quite possibly never noticed until this moment. These were miracles so “small” they were not even visible to the natural eye. The people couldn’t physically see God supernaturally protecting their clothing and shoes and feet day after day, but they could see it in the long run.

However, it was these “small” miracles which were big in the grand scheme of things. Had their clothing and shoes and feet worn out, they wouldn’t have been able to complete their journey. 

Every single day, God is at work on our behalf doing miracles in our lives. Some of them are big and bold and powerfully visible. But most of them are more subtle—so “small,” in fact, that we might never notice them until after-the-fact. And yet, these miracles are extremely significant in the grand scheme of our lives.

So, when the journey gets long and hot and tiring, may we remember that God is at work on our behalf. May we remember that He’s doing miracles on our behalf every single day that we can’t see with natural eyes. 

Eventually, these miracles will reveal themselves—if we have eyes to see them—and we’ll discover that these “little” miracles were the very things which allowed us to make it through the course of our journey. 

So I don’t know about you, but I want to be the person who sees the miracles. When the day comes that these miracles can be noticed, I want to notice them. I want to notice the “little” things—because it’s the “little” miracles that are the big ones. It’s the “little” miracles that cause us to be able to reach the end of our journey. And it’s the “little” miracles that speak to us of the ongoing, detailed, lovingkindness and watchful eye of our Heavenly Father.

Be the person that sees the “little” miracles.