Once when I was living in St. Louis, I was going to the driving range a few miles away. I was zooming down Interstate 270 in my Mazda pickup when I suddenly lost power. The speedometer went from 80 mph (yes, I confess to speeding!) down to 25 in a few seconds. I pulled onto the shoulder, popped the hood, and checked every system I could. As a last resort, I opened the fuse box and checked the fuse tubes. And I found to my chagrin that the 15-A fuse regulator was blown. It was a little glass tube with a metal strip inside. That strip had likely been decaying, melting, whatever, for a long time. But I never could see it coming, what with it hidden in a fuse box under the hood of my pickup.
Sometimes God’s activity is like that fuse regulator. So often, God works under the radar in our lives in ways we can’t see at first. Only later do we discover how richly he has been fashioning us all along. The everyday stuff of life is where God is at work. We have to beware of thinking God is molding me, using me, and equipping me for his service only when he is making a racket.