You matter to God!
Think on that for just a minute. God, the all mighty Creator, in all of His Greatness, Glory, and Majesty, loves you with so great a love no man can understand! Think back with me to Creation; God merely spoke, and there was light, again He spoke, and dry land appeared, plants, fish, birds, mammals, stars, planets, sun, moon, all by the word of His mouth were they created. Then when it came man’s turn to be created, He stopped everything. The Almighty God stooped down into the dirt, and carefully with His hands molded, and fashioned man into His likeness. Then, He did something completely different than He had done with the rest of creation, He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. We are so distinctly different from everything else God created! We are the crowning glory of His creation! You and I are so very special to him!
Psalms 139:15-17 describes how special we are to Him,
“15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!”
He has a book in heaven, were He has all of your body parts written down! The color of your eyes and hair, your height, your weight, your skin color, it’s all in that book! You were custom made! You are one of a kind young lady! And not only does He have a book written about you, but also He thinks about you so often there is no way to count!
What amazes me is that, even after all of the thought and love He put in to making us, we humans still turn our backs on Him, we still blame Him for the bad things that happen in the world, we get mad at Him because he didn’t make us taller, or with blue eyes, or because He put us in the family that He did. What’s even more amazing is that after all of our ungratefulness, He still sent His only Son to die a cruel death, so that we, ungrateful, despising, wicked, humans could live with Him for eternity!! If that isn’t a huge picture of how much He loves you and me, I don’t know what is.
Not only did He make each of us with care, and sent His Son to die for us, He also placed us in this beautiful world! I think we sometimes take the world around us for granted. We are so used to seeing the same things every day, that we’ve become callused to the beauty that surrounds us. Look outside your window. Just stare up at those huge, puffy, lovely clouds! Look at the different colored leaves falling from the trees. Listen to all of those varying species of birds whistling. Smell the fragrance of the flowers, but don’t just smell them, take a close look at the intricate detail God put in each petal. Think of all of the activities we as humans can enjoy. We can go swimming at the beach, we can ski off of snow-capped mountains, we can ride horses through meadows, go hunting, fishing, bird watching, mountain climbing, we can enjoy sports like volley ball, football, basketball, baseball, we can go snorkeling and see the variety of fish in the sea, we can enjoy watching the clouds and the sky in the horizon turn flamboyant colors as the sun is rising or setting. Our heavenly Father added all of that to creation for us to enjoy. So don’t spend your time being depressed! There is so much to see, so much to live for in this gorgeous world the Lord has so graciously placed us in! He loves you more than anything!! His greatest desire is for you to get to know Him better, and for you to live in eternity with Him! Get to know this loving God better! Learn about Him! He’s amazing! Don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t loved! You are very loved; by God and by us! You matter! May God bless you and give you a Fantastic week!
~Anna~
