is it a light thing?

i found something interesting while i was reading for my 90-day-reading the other day.

the first verse was in 1 Kings 16:31. it is talking about ahab, the wicked king. "and it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam..." then he takes jezebel as a wife. what stood out to me was the part that said "as if it had been a light thing". he considered certain sins to be light things in the sight of God. well, i highlighted it in my bible and put a star by it, because i wondered how many things i took lightly that God does not! do i take gossip lightly? God doesn't. do i take inconsistency with disciplining my kids lightly? God doesn't. the NIV says "considered it trivial." hmmm...good wordage there. how many times have I not even thought twice about how my words might affect my husband? ouch. ok. now on to later in my reading. in 2 Kings 3:18, i found myself reading the same words, yet in a different context. it says "And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord; he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand". hmmm...what does God consider a light thing that i consider a HUGE thing? do i consider needing enough money to pay the rent a huge thing? God doesn't. do i consider a close family friend dying of cancer a huge thing? God doesn't. see, we have it all wrong! the things that we take so seriously, God doesn't even see them as big at all! he can handle it all. but at the same time, the things that we consider no big deal, God could consider huge and it could be causing us to drift slowly away from that close, intimate relationship with Him.
i love the verse in Hebrews 3:13 that says "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness". that's just it. sin is deceitful, so deceitful that we start taking things lightly that God is totally against, and we DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT!!! and then we start doubting and worrying about things that GOD considers light, and WE DON'T EVEN REALIZE IT! i do not want to be deceived! i need to make sure that i am taking things seriously that God takes seriously. and that i should just be dropping all my worries to my God who considers delivering an entire army into Israel's hands a LIGHT THING! wow. what an awesome God we have.