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Monday... Have you ever had this thought?


Psalm 144:3 (MSG), "I wonder why you care, God - why do you bother with us at all?"

Monday... Have you ever had this thought?

Now if you have never had a relationship or even had a passing thought about God, then you probably haven't had this thought, But King David here in Psalm 144:3-4 (MSG) says, "I wonder why you care, God - why do you bother with us at all? All we are is a puff of air; we're like shadows in a campfire." I mean, it seems that we have been a problem from the beginning of time. So, why in the world do you care God? And why do you bother with us at all?


And those are very good questions even here on a Monday morning in March. 

We are in the middle of March Madness. That is what an end of the season national college basketball tournament is called.  Last week at this time there were over 60 teams playing but after this past weekend there are 16 left. There are 16 winners and we don't even bother our thoughts to the ones who lost. Just the coaches and the fans of those other teams really care about then. But they are gone. They lost. And next weekend there will be only 4 left.

And it seems that we as humans were all losers from the very beginning. But not to God, not to our loving God. As soon as our representatives messed up, God had a plan. 

Later in this Psalm David prays a prayer that shows that God cares. In verses 12-14 he prays, "Make our sons in their prime like sturdy oak trees, our daughters as shapley and bright as fields of wildflowers. Fill our barns with great harvest, fill our fields with huge flocks; protect us from invasion and exile - eliminate the crime in our streets." Now that is a prayer by David to a God that he knows really cares about us.

And then in verse 15 he says, "How blessed the people who have all of this! How blessed the people who have God for God!"

We are not losers in God's eyes. He loved us so much that he sent his Son to die for us and who wants to bless us if we give our lives to him. And no longer do we need to wonder if God cares. He does! He really does! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning



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