Despise small thing?

 We tend to assume that when God finally moves, we'll know. 

It wilI be obvious, undeniable, big, like a breakthrough, a sign, something unmistakable.

But Christmas tells a very different story. Luke says the Saviour of the world arrived quietly. No palace, no announcement to kings, no dramatic intervention, just a baby born in a borrowed space laid in a feeding trough.

And that detail should unsettle us. 

Because if we're honest, most of us are waiting for God to show up in ways that feel significant, something that proves God is listening, something that feels worthy of the wait. 

But God's answer to a broken world was not a thunderclap. It was vulnerability.

The letter to the Philippians tells us that Jesus Christ did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant.

And that means God didn't just appear small. He chose small. And that confronts a quiet assumption that many of us carry. 

We assume God works best through strength, momentum, charity, and confidence. But Christmas says He often works through weakness, obscurity, and beginning so small we're tempted to dismiss them.

Here is the uncomfortable question. 

What if God has already begun answering you, but the answer looks too small to trust?

Too unimpressive, too ordinary, too slow?

What if the thing you're overlooking is actually the  thing God is nurturing? 

The tragedy of Christmas is not that God came quietly. 

It is that most people missed Him because they were looking for something louder. And we have not changed much. 

We still equate God's presence with scale, with visibility, with momentum.

But the incarnation tells us something deeper. God does not need to impress us to redeem us. 

So, if you're waiting on God right now, waiting for clarity, direction, renewal, or hope, don't just ask, "Why hasn't God shown up yet?" 

Ask this instead. What small thing might God be doing that I'm tempted to ignore? 

Because Christmas reminds us that the smallest beginnings often carry the greatest glory. 

God bless you today. 

Be blessed and be a blessing.