Only Me. Only You.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16,17 NIV
When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe man's labor on earth--his eyes not seeing sleep day or night--then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all his efforts to search it out, man cannot discover its meaning. Even if a wise man claims he knows, he cannot really comprehend it.
1 Chronicles 28:9 NASB
As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
Have you ever returned to a childhood home that you thought was so huge with an expansive yard and the school you walked “miles” to each morning, only to discover the house was a cute cottage on a ¼ acre yard and the school you trekked to really was only 2 blocks away? I imagine that this world we think is so huge, the globe that is so expansive, the sun, so very far from earth are viewed by God the way we now see our childhood mansions.
Sometimes that sense can make us feel very small. Because the world is so big and values and traditions are as varied as are the countries upon the globe, we can feel very isolated, small, insignificant and powerless. But we are beings of tremendous, unspeakable significance through the eyes of God. Just image it: He made the sun, the moon and stars, water and land, air and vegetation, animals and then . . . He made man.
He saved us for last because we are the most important. Not important in a self-righteous, arrogant way, but as intrinsically significant creations, loved and valued above all others in the universe. Wow! Talk about a sense of identity! Note I didn’t say perfect creations. God does indeed know our minds and our hearts. He accepts that we are less than the angels. He made us that way after all.
God loves us so much in fact that he allows us to seek Him—He doesn’t force himself on us. There is no love on earth that equals that of our God’s for His people. That truth is demonstrated through Christ. The realization that I came to some time ago is that Christ died for all of mankind to give us the opportunity to choose eternal life in heaven; and He would have died for
only me. Only me.
And only you. Isn’t that thought overwhelming? To be loved that much, to be valued so tremendously is incomprehensible!
My prayer today is that as you remember your value in all of creation. And that you accept the gift of eternal life.
Mary
