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... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "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 for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together!

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together! They really do. And this is what caught my attention this morning as I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 1 (NRSVUE) says, "My child, if you accept my words and treasure my commands within you." Verse 3 (NIV), "Indeed i f you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, Verse 4, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, Verse 5, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." And verses 9-11, " Then you will understand what is right and just and fair - every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you." There will always be some effort we must do, some ifs for the thens to be realized in our lives. So many of us want to understand without the ifs. But the thens are so worth, so very worth the effort. Verses 5-6 in the Ampli...

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless.

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless. It really can. I have found that unless I give the correct email of my wife then I can't get what I wanted. I put an extra i in her email and I have been working for 5 days to get it changed. Unless has been useless. The writer of Psalm 94 uses this word and shows how important it is. Verses 17-19 (NLT) says, "Unless the Lord had helped me, I would have soon settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, 'I'm slipping!' but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer." "Unless the Lord had helped me." So many people go on and on and on striving to live their life on their own but they keep slipping and doubting and living without hope and cheer. Yes the Lord has such unfailing love for us, he really does but unless we have a relationship with him and we turn to him and ask him for help then the unless turns in to useless because h...

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