The next question one of you asked says.....
"Does God say in the Bible that He cares about me?"
Answer: ABSOLUTELY!!
Yes, He does! In Psalm 139:13-18, there is a WONDERFUL account of how much God cares for us. If you look this passage up in your Bible, take notice of many things that speak of God's care for us! Such as in ....
Verse 13 - He formed every part of us and watched us develop inside our mothers.
Verse 14 - God made us in reverence (fearfully) and uniqueness (wonderfully)
(That means He made us different than anyone else, and He did it with care.)
Verse 15 - God watched as we were developing in the womb, and being skillfully made by Him!
Verse 16 - God knew how long we are going to live, even before we were born!
Verse 17 - God thinks about us for we are valuable to Him. And He doesn't think about us just once or twice, but in ...
Verse 18 - God has sooo many thoughts about us that we cannot even begin to count them all!! Even more than the sand by a seashore!!!
"Yeah, that's nice, Mr.G. It's only one passage in the Bible that says that though."...... 'cuz I've got another one for you!!
Psalm 40:5 says the same thing! That His thoughts about us are uncountable....that means we can't even begin to count them all!! (Sound familiar??)
And guess what!?! There are many more Bible passages!
But just think of the mere fact that God not only knew you before you were even born, but then He watched you closely and was skillfully forming you while you were developing in your mother's womb. He knew how many days you were going to live. AAAnnnd.....Luke 12:7 says that God knows the very number of hairs that are on your head! (Yeah, I know, that's only about 32 for me! ... on a good hair-day!)
Now, get this....God's standard, expectations, and desires are unreachable by our own efforts. I mean, c'mon, He's God ~ there's NO WAY we can live up to what He wants us to do on our own! So when He created us, He knew we were going to sin and reject Him, yet, He went ahead and created us anyway. (If you are saying that you don't sin, you are fooling yourself!)
So, He took great care in creating you, knows EVERYTHING about you....even your thoughts and your motives, and the very number of hairs on your head, PLUS He knew you were going to reject Him and turn to your own way. Now if we knew someone were going to do that to us, you and I would be tempted to say, "Forget you!" and ZZAAAAPPP 'em ~ with a lightning bolt!
But not God. God reached out to us even in our rebellion against Him and offered to us a way back to Him. Wow! Imagine someone totally rejecting you, spit in your face, called you names, used your name like dirt, talked bad about you, did things that really irritated you, did things that intentionally hurt you, and yet would you be willing to reach out to that person and say, "I forgive you .... please won't you come back and be my friend." I would have a really hard time doing that, but God doesn't even blink an eye. Now that's caring for someone ALOT !!!
He will not only offer you forgiveness (which is completely self-less, because we do deserve punishment for our wrong!), but He would also LOVE to be involved in your life to help you ~ to encourage you ~ to show you which way to live your life to receive His blessings ~ smooth out some of our rough edges ~ and even to heal those broken and sore spots we all have!
So, does God really care about you??
ABSOLUTELY!!
Waaayyyy more than we could even understand!
WHO out there believes that???
Mr.G
