Thursday, May 18, 2017

Does God Actually Care For Us?

Most of us are rather strange. We want to live long lives, but develop habits that shorten them. We want to be free, yet we make ourselves slaves to sin. We could be saints, but we choose to be sinners. We desire immortality but refuse it because we reject Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord - the only path to eternal life.
Long ago, David the Psalmist asked, “O Lord, what is man that You care for him, the son of man that You think of him?”
Often we neglect to think about the fact that we were created by God in His image. We did not evolve from nor ascend from some lower life. We are different from all animals in many ways - physically, mentally, socially - but most of all we have a spiritual nature that no living animal has.
We are what we are because God made us the way that we are. If God wanted us to be different from the way we are, we would be. What we do matters to God. What happens to each of us matters to God. We are created in His image and that of itself makes us uniquely different and special - especially to God.
This puzzled the Psalmist. So he decided to ask God, “Why bother at all with the human race?”
Years later the question was answered: because He loves us. Remember what Jesus said? “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Man: different by design. Different because of God’s love.
Prayer: Thank You, Father, for a love that is eternal and the opportunity to enjoy a life that is eternal. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Scripture for Today: Psalm 144:3 Lord, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?

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