A journey across the country can make you realize how small your life is. Your home, your city, even your state can seem small after driving to destinations a thousand miles away, places with entirely different altitude, weather, and plant life. Perhaps you have stared into a night sky filled with countless stars and discovered your own infinite smallness. God is everywhere and all-powerful and all-knowing, and what are we, that we think so highly of ourselves?
Yet, God loves us. It is beyond comprehension, but it is true:
“He does not take His eyes off the righteous” Job 36:7. “He numbers the hairs on your head” Luke 12:7. He examines us every morning and numbers our every step Job 7:8. He saves your tears in a bottle” Psalm 56:8. “You hold my right hand” Psalm 73:23. God longs for the creature His hands have made Job 14:15.
(Imagine that: God LONGS for you!)
Not only that, God delights in His children so much that He SINGS over them: “The Lord your God is WITH YOU. The Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take GREAT DELIGHT in you. He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with SINGING” Zephaniah 3:16.
God calls you the APPLE OF HIS EYE, and He protects His children the way a warrior would protect his vision.
“He who touches you, touches the apple of His eye” Zechariah 2:8. “He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye” Deuteronomy 32:10.
God loves you so much, it is as though He obsesses over you like a doting parent. Do you see that? He counts your steps, He counts the hairs on your head, He never takes His eye off you. He cherishes and saves your tears. He holds your hand. He longs for you. He sings over you. And He cherishes and protects you like the apple of His eye. Nothing means more to Him than YOU.
David sums it up:
“The Lord thinks of me” Psalm 40:17.
Amen!
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