Tuesday... We really do, we really do.

Life and people and situations seem to have a way of bringing us to a place of feeling we are not important, we are not significant. We are just mere mortals. So why does God bother with us? But he does! We really do matter to him.

David in Psalm 8:3 & 4 (NLT) says, "When I look at the night sky and see the works of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" God is not like us. He sees us in a totally different way and he wants to open our eyes to see what he sees.

The Message says, "Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?" But he does!

David goes on. Verse 5 (NLT) says, "Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor."

Life with sin in it pulls us down but life with God in it lifts us up.

The Apostle Paul in the 11th chapter of his second letter to the Corinthians in verses 3-4 says, "But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by cunning ways of the serpent. You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed." Verses 5 & 6 says, "But I don't consider myself inferior in any way to these 'super apostles' who teach such things. I may be unskilled as a speaker, but I'm not lacking in knowledge. We have made this clear to you in every possible way."

So let's not get off track. Yes, we may think we are mere mortals but God has crowned us with glory and honor. Yes we may have the passing thought of why does he bother about us, but he does. He does. You see, we really do matter to him. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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