Zechariah 4:10 says, “Who despises the day of small things?” Indeed, everything we do is a very small thing.
The Lord asks this rhetorical question of Zerubbabel, who led the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple around 530 B.C. The Hebrew exiles were returning from Babylon, which was very good. What they returned to was an absolute disaster, which was not. The temple was unrecognizable to those who witnessed its former glory. Zerubbabel and his motley band of not-always-reliable volunteers would work at its rebuilding for “the day,” which turned out to be one day out of the twenty years it took to complete.
Before the Lord elevated the importance of the small things of the day, he spoke of how that work would become part of one very big day, the one on which the Messiah would come and “remove the sin of this land” (3:9). And all this would, indeed, come to pass. The temple would be rebuilt and the Messiah would come, “‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty” (4:6).
These are very big things. Then, the passage draws your attention to a small thing. One stone moved into place. A plumb
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