Opus 2025-031: That Still Small Hand

If you’ve been around Christians much, you have somewhere heard the term “the still small voice.”  That refers to the way in which sometimes God speaks to us quietly in our in our hearts.  It is the voice of the Holy Spirit.  It is another one of those phrases that are found in the Bible.

(1Ki 19:12 KJV)  And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

I’m wondering if we don’t miss a lot of what God does in our world because He often moves with a “still small hand”.  We tend to think of miracles as glorious and extravagant intervention into our world.  We think of things like the parting of the Red Sea.  In reality, I think there are probably numerous daily miracles going on that are done quietly, and with what we might call divine sleight-of-hand.

We had a small miracle shared at church on Sunday.  The speaker was at an intersection turning onto a main highway from a side road.  There was a signal, and he was the second car in line.  The light turned green and the car in front of him started out into the intersection and suddenly slammed on his brakes and came to a halt just quick enough to be missed by a crazy guy in a big pickup running the red light.  The telling was very dramatic.  It seems that the car in front of him had inches to spare before he was destroyed by this behemoth.  It didn’t take much to wake the guy up to impending death.  It sounded like the kind of miracle that takes place all around us every day; less dramatic, but just as life-changing.

I wonder how often this is the way God works.  In fact, I’m pretty much convinced after thinking about it that this is usually the way God works with His still small hand.

My attitude of thankfulness includes all of those little incidents that I don’t even notice and encompasses the work of guardian angels.  You do believe in guardian angels, don’t you?  It’s a good thing that their pride is not on the line when it comes to serving us.

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