Nehemiah 7:21-25: in context

This passage continues the register of those who returned from exile, listing small groups by their ancestral families: the children of Ater, ninety-eight; the children of Hashum, three hundred twenty-eight; and others, some numbering only in the dozens. These are not great multitudes but modest clusters of families, each carefully counted and recorded.

What is quietly striking is that even the small groups are numbered and named. A family of ninety-eight, a group of ninety-five, was not too insignificant to be recorded. In God's register of his returning people, the small clans matter as much as the large; none is overlooked because of its size. Each little group of returning families is written down, counted, remembered.

God does not count only the large and impressive; he numbers even the smallest groups among his people. A small family, a small congregation, a small and hidden work, is not beneath his notice; he records and remembers it. The God who counted the little clans of the returning remnant values what is small, and no one who belongs to him is too small to be counted.

When I feel part of something small or insignificant, do I trust that God counts and remembers even the smallest groups among his people, as he recorded the little clans of the returning remnant, so that nothing hidden or modest in his service is beneath his notice?