# “The pivots of history are microscopic” by Charles Spurgeon

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“On how small an incident the greatest results may hinge! The pivots of history 
are microscopic. Hence, it is most important for us to learn that the smallest trifles
are as much arranged by the God of providence as the most startling events.

He who counts the stars has also numbered the hairs of our heads. Our lives and 
deaths are predestinated, but so also are our downsitting and our uprising. Had 
we but sufficiently powerful perceptive faculties, we should see God’s hand as clearly
in each stone of our pathway as in the revolutions of the earth.

In watching our own lives, we may plainly see that, on many occasions, the merest
grain has turned the scale. Whereas there seemed to be but a hair’s-breadth between
one course of action and another, yet that hair’s-breadth has sufficed to direct
the current of our life.

‘He,’ says Flavel, ‘who will observe providences shall never be long without a providence
to observe.’

Providence may be seen as the finger of God, not merely in those events which shake
nations, and are duly emblazoned on the page of history, but in little incidents
of common life, ay, in the motion of a grain of dust, the trembling of a dew-drop,
the flight of a swallow, or the leaping of a fish.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, [_The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, Vol. LIV_](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Metropolitan+Tabernacle+Pulpit+Volume+54&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)(
London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1908), 25-26.

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