The word that came to Jeremiah’s secretary was, ‘Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.’7 And then he goes on to promise that God will take care of him. We should just get out of the business of seeking great things. Now, if we do that, then we will be more observant of the small things; we will, for example, have time and energy because we are resting in God to really do justice to the small things. And that will be to approach them as one who lives in the kingdom of God who actually cares about the people who are closest to them.
