It's about seeing God in the little things

            It's easy to see God move in big ways. When he makes the impossible come to life by saving a life or changing a life, it's hard to deny he is moving. But when He is just orchestrating the background, or just showing us glimpses at his will, we all just tend to ignore it. When we least expect it, He is moving.
            We may not always pay attention, but God, or fate as He is called in the secular world, is always pointing us in the right direction.  It's Him working when you miss the bus to school and you just happen to run into an old friend who needs help, or makes you hit traffic on your way to work so you are fired and find a new job that is better. When we least expect it, He is moving.
            Sometimes though he doesn't he just presents a sign and it's up to our free will to decide to obey or not. While we could have before not helped our friend or accepted the new job, those are things we would normally do if we could; God just set up the situation. But when God sets up a yield sign, it's entirely up to us what we do. Sometimes its the answer to a prayer we didn't want, like a sign of a failing relationship or someone moving away, or just those little coincidences that we shrug off, like just the right song playing when we hit shuffle or the right person calling when we need a friend, that show us down the path God wants us on or that He just wants us out of a situation all together. When we least expect it, He is moving.
            What we need to be careful of is taking every thing that happens to us as an act of God. No, unless you just happen to fall backwards into an open Bible that reveals something you needed to know, God didn't make you stub your toe. Just because He works in mysterious ways doesn't mean he always dropping you hints. We just need to be able to recognize the moments when He speaks and distinguish them from when He isn't. If it isn't pointing us towards Him and where He wants us to be, it probably isn't Him. When we least expect it He is moving, but not everything is a movement.
            We today, as a whole, tend to put God in a box and only bring him out on Sunday mornings, failing to realize that, even when it hurts us, he is working. God doesn't want cookie-cutter Christians, but He also doesn't want us spilling out of the pan, that's why, whenever we need it, He nudges us or points us in the right direction. So go ahead and be a oatmeal-raisin, chocolate-chip, snickerdoodle, or whatever kind of cookie you want in whatever shape you want, but never forget to listen to the things God is telling you... Even when it's just a whisper.