在我們的婚前送禮派對上，一位害羞的朋友戴夫站在一個角落，手裡拿著用紙巾包著的長方形物品。當輪到他贈送禮物時，他把禮物遞給我們。艾文和我把紙巾掀開，發現這是一個以手工雕刻的木製工藝品，呈現完美的橢圓形同心木紋圓圈，上面還刻著一句話：「上帝的奇妙作為有些是微小的。」如今這塊牌匾在我們家掛了45年，一次又一次地提醒我們，即使是在小事上，上帝也在做工。就像支付帳單、提供餐食、治癒感冒，這些小事全都深刻地記錄了上帝的供應。

在舊約時期，上帝透過先知撒迦利亞，吩咐猶大省長所羅巴伯重建耶路撒冷和聖殿，並傳遞類似的信息。那時，以色列人從巴比倫這被擄之地回歸故土後，百廢待興，各項建設進展緩慢，人們變得灰心喪志。但上帝宣稱：「不要輕視這微不足道的開始」（撒迦利亞書4章10節，新普及譯本）。祂會透過我們成就祂的旨意，有時甚至無需你我參與。正如萬軍之耶和華說：「不是倚靠勢力，不是倚靠才能，乃是倚靠我的靈方能成事。」（6節）

上帝會在你我身上或周遭做許多微不足道的小事，當我們習以為常的時候，願我們謹記：上帝的奇妙作為或許看似微小，但祂會用小事來實現祂偉大的旨意。

At our wedding shower, our shy friend Dave stood in a corner clutching an oblong, tissue-wrapped object. When his turn came to present his gift, he brought it forward. Evan and I unwrapped it to discover a hand-carved piece of wood containing perfect oblong concentric woodgrain circles and the engraved sentence, “Some of God’s miracles are small.” The plaque has hung in our home for forty-five years, reminding us again and again that God is at work even in the small things. Paying a bill. Providing a meal. Healing a cold. All tallying up to an impressive record of God’s provision.

Through the prophet Zechariah, the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel received a similar message from God regarding the rebuilding of Jerusalem and the temple. After returning from their Babylonian captivity, a season of slow progress began, and the Israelites grew discouraged. “Do not despise these small beginnings,” God declared (Zechariah 4:10 nlt). He accomplishes His desires through us and sometimes in spite of us. “ ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty” (v. 6).

When we grow weary at the apparent smallness of God’s work in and around us, may we remember that some of His miracles may be “small.” He uses the small things to build toward His greater purposes.