This topic came to mind reading this side note in January 7, 2016 of Haven Ministries' "Anchor Devotional": "God's glory is above all His creation. Yet the Creator of the Universe thinks about you."
Scripture says much about how much we mean to God individually, each and every one of us. I think just looking at the intricacies of our whole being: mind, body and soul in itself shows this! God could have made us just a mindless blob of a thing that just sits there and been done with us - but no! Look at all the details in even a single cell of our bodies and all that it does! He really gave special attention to making us who we are. Our complexities go far beyond our comprehension, even today.
I love that scripture that says, "Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted!" (Matthew 10:30 ISV International Standard Version)
And if you're bald, no matter. Every cell in your scalp is counted. Oh, how He loves us!
Jesus, in Matthew 18:10 (GNT) speaks about the importance of every child... "See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven. What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost. In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost."
(Note how it says that children's angels in heaven are always in God's presence. Interesting! At first I thought it meant that children are angels in heaven.. Read carefully scripture and you'll find all kinds of interesting insights.)
Also, think about God allowing His Holy Spirit to dwell in us. In the Books of Exodus and Ezekiel in the Old Testament it talks about how people and items in God's presence could not afterwards be in the presence of people without killing them because God's power is so great and so pure that anything less cannot survive in His pure presence. Even the priests garments worn in God's presence in His Holy Temple (mentioned in Ezekiel) had to be removed before the priests went out amongst the people. That is why God sent His Son to live among us and, when He rose to heaven, God gave us His Holy Spirit to dwell within us. We cannot exist in the presence of God, Himself in His pure state, as I understand it. But, back to this topic, for God to allow His Son and His Holy Spirit to live with and within us - We must be pretty darn important!
As Dr. Marcus Brody in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" tells Indiana Jones about the Ark of the Covenant, "It's not something to be taken lightly." Amen!
Scripture says much about how much we mean to God individually, each and every one of us. I think just looking at the intricacies of our whole being: mind, body and soul in itself shows this! God could have made us just a mindless blob of a thing that just sits there and been done with us - but no! Look at all the details in even a single cell of our bodies and all that it does! He really gave special attention to making us who we are. Our complexities go far beyond our comprehension, even today.
I love that scripture that says, "Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted!" (Matthew 10:30 ISV International Standard Version)
And if you're bald, no matter. Every cell in your scalp is counted. Oh, how He loves us!
Jesus, in Matthew 18:10 (GNT) speaks about the importance of every child... "See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven. What do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost. In just the same way your Father in heaven does not want any of these little ones to be lost."
(Note how it says that children's angels in heaven are always in God's presence. Interesting! At first I thought it meant that children are angels in heaven.. Read carefully scripture and you'll find all kinds of interesting insights.)
Also, think about God allowing His Holy Spirit to dwell in us. In the Books of Exodus and Ezekiel in the Old Testament it talks about how people and items in God's presence could not afterwards be in the presence of people without killing them because God's power is so great and so pure that anything less cannot survive in His pure presence. Even the priests garments worn in God's presence in His Holy Temple (mentioned in Ezekiel) had to be removed before the priests went out amongst the people. That is why God sent His Son to live among us and, when He rose to heaven, God gave us His Holy Spirit to dwell within us. We cannot exist in the presence of God, Himself in His pure state, as I understand it. But, back to this topic, for God to allow His Son and His Holy Spirit to live with and within us - We must be pretty darn important!
As Dr. Marcus Brody in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" tells Indiana Jones about the Ark of the Covenant, "It's not something to be taken lightly." Amen!
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| My little sheep, Feliz, now in heaven with Jesus. Photo by Tommy Troudeaux |
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