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

Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit?

Nehemiah 6:16b (NLT), "They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Tuesday... I wonder what would happen if we didn't take the credit? Over in the Old Testament in the book of Nehemiah it tells of a major task that through the leadership of Nehemiah was accomplished. The walls of Jerusalem had been torn down and God had laid it on Nehemiah to build those walls back up. It was definitely an almost impossible task but Nehemiah 6:15-16 says, "So on October 2 the wall was finished - just fifty-two days after we had begun. When our enemies and the surrounding nations heard about it, they were frightened and humiliated. They realized this work had been done with the help of our God." Now, we so many times want to take credit for doing the impossible. It would make such a difference for us. But I wonder what would happen through us if God got the credit? Psalm 96 tells us what we are to do. Verses 2-3 says, "Sing to the LORD; praise his name. ...

Tuesday... We just have trouble listening.

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." Tuesday... We just have trouble listening. Over in Jeremiah 25:4 (NLT) it says, "Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention." And Jeremiah went on to tell what was going to happen. There will be consequences if we do not listen to what God says through his Word. Now the Apostle Paul over in 1 Corinthians was having a problem with some professed Christ followers who were having trouble at listening. And we too can have problems at listening. We can think that being a Christ follower means we do a lot of finger pointing and we give up on people who don't do what we say. We can even do that in our families. But Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT), "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." In verse ...

Thursday... Yet, now this is true.

Colossians 1:22a (NLT), "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body." Thursday... Yet, now this is true. Now Paul a prisoner in Rome is writing a letter to a church in Colossae. And in Colossians 1:21 (MSG) he says, "Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds" The NLT says "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated by your evil thoughts and actions." And that is where so many in this world live today. They are blowing it and they don't know what to do. Yes, they are hostile in their minds and they are engaging in evil deeds but there is Good News. Now Paul in verses 19-20 sets the stage for an answer to those who don't want to live that way. He says, "For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and earth b...

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