Who am i that you are mindful of me6/19/2023 But I submit that the poverty, the suffering we inflict on each other, the color that lingers in the skies above our largest cities, and the undeniable degradation of the Earth’s oceans speak volumes about the quality of our stewardship. I’ll leave it to you to answer that question for yourself. So, how are we doing with that responsibility and that opportunity? ![]() This is an amazing heritage! What a wonderful a reason for being! To take care of God’s Creation and to live in relationship and communion with Him while we do so?!? And then, after we die, to live with Him in Heaven for eternity. In Genesis, God says, “Let us make man in our image…and let them have dominion over the…earth.” And He made mankind to be His caretakers of that Creation (including one another). What wonderful and humbling thoughts! God made the Universe for His enjoyment. He wanted us to know and love Him while we are here, and to look forward to spending eternity in blissful communion with Him in Heaven. He came to dwell among us in person so that we might see Him, hear Him, and learn from Him His desires for us. The answer is that we are so valuable to Him that God incarnated Himself here on Earth as Jesus the Christ. How valuable must each of us be to Him that God chooses to know and care about each one of the billions of people who are (or ever have) walking the Earth? Allow the enormity of that to sink in for a moment. So the Entity who created the billions upon billions of galaxies and the billions upon billions of suns and planets within them is thinking about you and me. In the same section of scripture, the Lord also says (paraphrasing), “…I have plans for you…to give you a future…” Here, the Lord of Creation is telling us that not only is He aware of us, but that He is also planning for our future. In Jeremiah 29:12-13, the Lord says, “…you will pray to me, and I will hear you…” Would God listen to someone He didn’t want to know or care about? A more understandable question would be, “How could God even know that we are here?!?” Much less, “How could He want to know me?” Answer.Īnd yet, we are assured that not only is God aware of us, but that cares for and about each one of us, and has done so since the first human (Adam) arrived on the scene. ![]() Indeed, in this light, the question of “…what is man that You are mindful of him…” seems a bit quaint. When considered in comparison to these cosmic proportions, an individual human is infinitesimally small and insignificant. Our Christian Faith tells us that the Being who created a universe of such magnitude and majesty wants to have a relationship with each of the nearly eight billion people currently living on our small, insignificant Earth, which is only part of a relatively small solar system on the edge of the Milky Way. NASA estimates that it would take over 200,000 years to cross our galaxy moving at the speed of light. To look at it another way, the Milky Way (one galaxy among billions) is roughly 625,000,000,000,000,000 miles across. ![]() It is estimated that there are over two-hundred billion galaxies in the universe and that each of those galaxies holds billions of suns! There is no way to know the number of planets that circle those suns, but the number would be, well beyond even “astronomical.” It is a number that is beyond our comprehension. Just how is it that the Creator of the Universe is not only aware of us individually but also cares about us and wants to have us spend eternity with Him? For me, the magnitude of this idea is almost overwhelming. This question has been running through my mind recently.
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