As you live your life day-by-day, there will probably be some times that you think your life really doesn’t make a difference. You may think that no one around you is being impacted by you and the things you do, and that no one would really notice if you were gone.
Let’s face it – it is a big world – a VERY big world, and only a few very important people make a difference. That’s what Satan would like us to believe, but each one of us has something we can contribute, and each one of us is special in the eyes of God our Creator. God has given to us as human beings, a very special gift. It is a gift of love. A gift in making us, in making us like Himself. But also, in giving us His very own son, the Lord Jesus.
Walter Scott is credited with saying, “True love is the gift which God hath given to man alone beneath the heavens – true love.” Yes, God loves all of His creation as He showed when He looked at the things He had created each day and said “It is good, It is good;” until the sixth day when He created man, and he looked at man and He said, “It is VERY good.” You, my friend, are special in the eyes of God because you are His creation.
In the eighth chapter of Psalms we read David’s words, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, You who set Your glory above the heavens!” Later in the Psalm David continues, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man, that You are mindful of him?”
David has a hard time grasping why would would be concerned with man. After all, He created the vast universe and everything in it. When you think about that, it seems pretty special that God would be concerned with man. As David writes, we have been created to be lower than the angels but above the other living creatures.
He just looked at all creation and said “God it is AMAZING to me that in all of this you have made me the most special and put all things under our dominion.”
In Psalm 139:14 David writes how fearfully and wonderfully he was made. Yes, friend we are special because we are God’s creation. And, when you begin to think you don’t matter to anyone else, please remember you MATTER to Him – you are precious in His sight!
Dr. Ann Shorb is a Biblical, writer, and speaker. Her company, CCES, offers counseling services in Hanover, Pennsylvania as well as Christian Christian telephone counseling for clients anywhere in the US.
