Tuesday... We are really important.

Psalm 8:5 (NLT), "Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor."

Tuesday... We are really important.

We so many times think that is true and stop right there. Yes we think that we really are important but we must not stop stop there. We are really important to God. Psalm 8:5 (NLT) says, "Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor."

Here is what verses 3-4 says, "When I look at the night sky and see the work 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 about them." Now that is the truth. We are mere mortals. The NIRV says, "What are human beings that you think about them." I mean, who do we think we are?

I don't know what you are facing this morning. You may be looking at yourself and thinking that you are a mere mortal. I'm worthless. I don't mean anything to anybody. And therein lies a problem. Some think too lowly of themselves while others think too highly and there is truth in both extremes and there are problems with each extreme.

If I think I am nothing, that I am worthless, then I look down instead of up. Verse 4 (NLT) says, "What are mere mortals that you should think about them? Yet you made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor." Our importance comes from what God thinks of us and what he has done for us and what he wants to do through us.

Verse 3 says, "When I look at the night sky and see the works of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place." Yes, looking up sets everything into focus. We are important to God and that is a big deal. I mean, "what are mere mortals that you should think about them?"

Maybe you are in a work situation and those ahead of you don't really think you are important. I mean, maybe you have lost your job. You are without a doubt just a number to them, even less than a mere mortal. But listen, the one who made that moon and those stars made you a little lower than himself and has crowned you with glory and honor. You are important to God and he knows what is happening in your life. Verse 6 (NIV) says, "You made them rulers of the works of your hands." Yes, you are important. You are important because God made you with a purpose. He is not done with you even if it seems like the world around you is.

Just because I am retired doesn't mean I am done with my life. Here I am sitting at Foxtail Coffee with my computer and God's Word and I am looking out the window and being inspired by God to write an encouraging word for you today. God is not done with me even as I am getting closer and closer to being old. I am two months away from being 79 but God is not through with me. Verse 6 says, "You made them rulers over the works of your hands." I am important because of God and he is not done with me and he is not done with you no matter what those around you are saying.

Verse 5 (NIV) says, "You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor" even at 79.

We are really important to God and he is not done with us. So let's quit looking down and keep looking up. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

Wednesday... It is amazing what we can see.

Psalm 3:3a (NLT), "But you, O LORD, are a shield around me." Wednesday... It is amazing what we can see. And what we see does make such a difference in our day. Now David, he writer of Psalm 3 starts this Psalm this way. He says in verse 1 (NLT), "O Lord, I have so many enemies; so many are against me." Yes, he is saying this to the LORD, the one he serves. Verse 2 says, "So many are saying, 'God will never rescue him!'" And that is so true with that outlook. So many of us get out of bed with that outlook every morning. It is amazing what we can see. Now I woke up this morning and eventually found myself outside on my couch with my Bible and I read this outlook in verses 1-2 from David. But I didn't stop there and neither did David. But that is an easy place to stop, isn't it? And it is true. Yes, David didn't stop there. Verses 3-4 says, "But you, O LORD, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high. I...

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