#Insignificant

She walked out of her way to come over and say "Hi" to me. My jaw dropped open and both hands went to my cheeks as I saw her. It had been almost six months since we had seen each other and when she told me that she just want to see me, the feeling of being cared about blessed me. It might have been insignificant to others who had many friends and regularly see each other, but it was significant to me.

The robed men standing in the temple saw the woman, a widow, drop two pennies in the collection plate and must have thought how insignificant that gift was. They were far better off financially than she was and probably gave much more regularly. Jesus saw her gift and commented about how much she had given - she had given all she had. Her gift was not an insignificant one to God.

There were ten lepers confined outside the city and as Jesus was passing by all ten recognized Him and hollered out for mercy. They were told to go show themselves to the priest and as they were going all were healed. One of them saw that he was healed and right away turned around and headed back toward Jesus and fell at His feet thanking and praising Him. Jesus told him to stand up and go, that his faith had saved him. This one man had already obeyed Jesus's command and headed for the priest, but thought what had happened so significant that he went back to thank his healer. He recognized God in the flesh and Jesus told him that he was not only healed physically but spiritually, as well.

It is said that God is in the details and I believe it is true. When Uzzah placed his hands on the Ark of the Covenant to keep it from falling off the new cart as it was being taken back to Jerusalem, he was struck dead. He might have had good intentions, but he was struck dead for his irreverence. No one but the High Priest could touch that box. All the leaders thought they were doing right by making a new cart to place the Ark on and they might have had good intentions, but God had told them years before how the Ark should travel and this was not the way. It might have been a rather insignificant move in man's estimation of using a cart to transfer the Ark, but it was serious in God's mind.

It is not insignificant that God says in 1 John 5:11-12 "And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life."  I think God is serious about this detail.