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"GOD CARES FOR THOSE LITTLE THINGS" "But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim." (2 Kings 6:5-6)The sons of the prophets had outgrown their living quarters. They asked permission from Elisha to build a bigger dwelling. He told them to go do it, but they insisted that he come with them. While they were felling trees along the muddy Jordan River, one of them lost an axe head in the water. He cried out to Elisha, "It was borrowed." He most likely did not have the money to replace it.Now, Elisha did something very strange and unusual. He cut off a stick and threw it in the water where the axe head had fallen. The axe head floated to the surface! Then he told the man to reach out and grab it.Does God care about little things like a lost axe head? It sure looks to me like He does. Is there anything too small a matter in our life to take to the Lord? Not at all. The Lord is concerned about the things that concern us.The son of the prophets could have just thrown up his hands and said, "Oh well, I guess I can't return it." Or he could have jumped in the Jordan and tried to feel around with his feet in the mud. Instead he looked to the Lord through the prophet to see God's solution, and we read that Elisha looked to the Lord as well. It was surely the Spirit of the Lord that offered such a strange and uncommon solution. Where do you turn when these little crisis hit? What is your response to them?Friends, God cares about even the little things in our life. He has a solution, if we will look to Him. No matter how strange and unusual it may seem, may we ever follow His direction.