Have you ever stopped to think about how valuable you are to God? I have had folks tell me, young and old that it just doesn’t seem possible that God would care for them. A lot of the time, these people are going through hard times; personal, spiritual, moral, problems that have burdened them with a lot of guilt and self reproach.
But, I try to tell them that God’s goodness and his greatness, confirms and assures the worth of humanity. How could he not care for his most valuable creation?
David asked in his Psalm, “what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?” And he continues to note in the same passage, “You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor.”
I try to visualize this “crown” and like David, wonder and ask myself, “Why, Lord, have you done this?” I can’t help but tear up and think of how much he truly cares for me. I know who I am, where I came from, what I have done and not done and said and not said and thought and not thought and still he cares for me.
We are loved and cared for more than we are willing to recognize. And, David understood this in Psalm 8.
God gave us charge over all he has made and has “put all things under our authority.” What confidence in us! What trust in us! What assurance for us!
How do we care for God’s creation? He gave us the responsibility to tend and use our resources wisely in the caring. He also holds us accountable. We have been given “honor and glory” but along with that come responsibilities; “nothing that we cannot handle.” It’s all in the “wanting to do it” for God’s honor and glory.
In doing for God, we are respecting God’s majesty! David wrote, “O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!”
Yes, we are small comparatively and quite frankly minutely nothing, to the Greatness of God; but in our humility for all he does for us; we not only respect his majesty but defer to Him, willingly. That makes all the difference!
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