Details, Details, Details...

I remember last year, during my Christian Ethics 20 Class, when I was supposed to read through the Old Testament. My teacher had told us to read each book throughly with one exception... Leviticus. Being the good student I was, I made sure to do exactly as he said and I skimmed through Leviticus without giving it much thought. This time, however, as I read through the end of Exodus and all of Leviticus for the 90 Day Challenge, I have decided to try and find areas in my life where the over all themes of these two books apply to my own life. One of the key things that has stuck out for me so far is the emphasis that God places on details. Normally I would try and use one of the verses to back up this but basically the entire book of Leviticus does that for me. If you want proof of what I am saying, just go check it out for yourself!
In the end of Exodus and Leviticus, God seems to have an interest in the details of life. He specifies every little thing for the creation of His Sanctuary. From the type of wood that everything should be made out of down to the underwear that the Priests needed to wear, God knew exactly what He wanted and He made sure that He would get it. By the time we hit Leviticus, God is describing in detail the different kind of sacrifices that needed to be made, how they needed to be made, what should and/or should not have been done, and what was clean and unclean. To me, this almost seems like a little bit to much attention paid to the details. But who are we to question God right?
Confused about all of these details, I sat down and looked at my own life and then it hit me. If God would pay this much attention to the details of a man made sanctuary (Yes, it was also God inspired which makes it pretty awesome) and to everything else, then that means that He pays that much attention to the details in my own life. Things that currently seem to be large problems to me such as finances for university, finding a good church to attend, and the fact that I am moving out on my own in two weeks, are minor details to God. He sees my life as a whole, each individual excitement, worry, or event being a small puzzle peice fitting into the larger picture. So I ask myself one final question to finish this off for the night (I would encourage you to reflect on it for a moment as well). Why do we spend so much time worrying about these details when God has them under control? He knows what we need and promises to provide for us. Isn't that enough?