In the first episode of Season 2, Azusa meets again the deity who brought her to this isekai when she reincarnated after death by overwork. Pretty much everything about the episode’s depiction of divinity is pure silliness: The goddesses are likened to idols on the performance circuit, complete with glow sticks and other merch, a clear hierarchy (akin to a Ponzi scheme), and even loyalty cards. It’s more akin to a Roman or Greek notion of godhood than anything Judeo-Christian. But on the way home from this bizarre experience, as Azusa’s recounts her backstage encounter with Mega-mega to her friends, the ever studious Shalsha deduces something that is nothing short of revelatory. “So,” she observes, writing furiously in her notebook, “gods are interested in idle chats and the goings-on of everyday life.” Yes, little bean, you’re absolutely right: God is interested in us! He’s interested in everything about us, every moment of our days.
We know of God’s profound engagement with our lives in three main ways, the first being from accounts in scripture. Have you ever read Exodus for the details instead of the plot and moral lessons? Have you noticed how, even though the Israelites hadn’t warmed up to God enough to pray to him themselves (despite his repeated invitations to them!), he eavesdropped on their conversations and, finding the people restless and distracted, actually satisfied the desires that were consuming them, providing quail meat and water every time they grumbled, and besides that, clothing and sandals that never wore out even after forty years? (See Exodus 15-17, and also Deuteronomy 29:5.) Or think about the ways in which God inspired Solomon to use his wisdom to solve the incredibly urgent and weighty problems of servants’ uniform design, place-settings at the dinner table, and the location and layout of a staircase! These are all things that, we can be sure, palace servants grumbled or sighed over under King David, perhaps wishing someone would give them a uniform that could breathe, or make more sensible routes for them through the palace-temple complex for carrying out daily responsibilities and worship. Then there are the exhausted, discouraged (and even disobedient!) prophets who needed a safe place to rest and recover, like Elijah or Jonah, and the hungry crowds on the mountainside, who still needed food for their bodies despite the rich feast their spirits were enjoying with every word from Jesus. Scripture shows us that God cares enough to engage with the dull details of daily life.
We also know this through personal testimonies—our own and those of others. Every time I hear someone’s testimony of coming to faith or encountering Jesus, Father God, or the Holy Spirit in a new, life-changing way, I marvel at how individual the story is! At the way that God weaves together specific details, meaningful only to that particular person—things as innocuous as a song lyric, an overheard conversation, a friendly animal or bird, or a scene in an episode of anime that resonates with shocking clarity—fashioning these seemingly random threads into a braided chord that pulls on that one person’s heart, and theirs alone. Although most testimonies share in common a certain arc of emotions, impact, and outcome, no two are alike in the details. God reaches into our story not just through grand gestures amid crisis moments, but also in the seemingly idle chats and goings-on of our everyday lives.
Finally, we also know God is interested in all the small things because of the way in which we are designed: We have been made with the capacity to be in continual, life-giving, uninterrupted dialogue with him! And here I’m talking about that narrator in our heads—the one that, sadly, can often be hijacked by “negative self-talk” or the cruel or fearful words that others have spoken over us. But this capacity for inner speech was made, by God’s original design and intent, to be a kind of meeting place with him. I think that this is a key part of what Paul was getting at with his exhortations to the Philippians and Thessalonians to pray without ceasing, to be always giving thanks, to petition God about everything. He was telling them—and us too—how to reclaim that often deleterious inner monologue for its original purpose, for life-giving dialogue with our Creator. God doesn’t just want to hear from us on special occasions, or be involved in big-ticket events or crises in our lives; he’s here, waiting to chat with us about everything—all of it! The mundane, the minute, the insignificant. He cares about all the details and goings-on that touch and shape our lives and souls.
Throughout Season 2 of Killing Slimes, Azusa and friends meet quite a number of deities, and it’s true that they prove to be quite interested in the daily lives of regular folk—but for rather selfish reasons. Each has her own agenda that Azusa must uncover and navigate to avoid being landed in some kind of disaster. The divinities of Azusa’s isekai are not a trustworthy pantheon.
But Our God is. He is eager to be a part of our lives in their entirety—not for his own benefit, like Azusa’s goddesses, but for ours: To ensure that we experience the fullness of joy that Jesus spoke about.
So, let’s have those idle chats with God! Let’s invite him into the goings-on of our everyday lives, so that we might discover what it’s like to do life together with the Creator of all the universes—and maybe even Azusa’s isekai.
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