So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it . . . (Genesis 6:14–15)

As a writer and editor, I know that details matter. If a comma is out of place or missing, it can change the meaning of a sentence. When writing a scene for my cozy mystery, it’s important to include details so that the reader can “see” what’s happening in the story.

It can be tempting to think the details of our lives don’t matter to God—that he’s too busy running the universe and helping people with bigger problems than our own.

But we serve a God of details—one who gave Noah the exact dimensions he needed for the ark and who made a way for us to be saved through Jesus’s death and resurrection.

We can trust God with all the details of our lives—from things like our worry about a diagnosis, how to raise our children, or how to spend our time to what we should do for a living, whether we should pursue a relationship, or if we should make that purchase.

Placing our trust in him can be easier said than done, but in Matthew 6:26, Jesus points out how much God cares about the details of our lives: “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?”

If you start to doubt that God cares about the details of your lives, just remember, he cares about these things because he cares about us.

Dear Jesus, thank you for caring about the details that make up my life. Help me to trust you with them all. Amen.