Most of you have more than one blog. The post below is from www.alanmaz.blogspot.com I use this blog for our Bible Study and as an outlet for deep thinking. You are welcome to check it out and comment if you like.
HE KNOWS ME... One of the biggest steps in my young christian life was moving from God loves the world and others to a understanding that God loves me personally and knows me. It was always easier to see how God could love someone else. At times I did not even love myself, so how could an awesome Holy, Powerful God love me. Besides isn't he busy with a vast universe. I am only a spec in that universe, surely He would not even miss me if I were gone.
How wrong I was! God did know me and He had singled me out as uniquely important as He has with us all.
"You have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit down and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways, before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. Psalm 139:1-4
As I opened to God in my daily life, He revealed how much he loved me and how well he knew me. I am not just another number to God. There is a beautiful passage in Isaiah 49:16 that reads
"See I have engraved you in the palm of my hands"
That passage looked forward to the cross where Jesus' hands were permanently engraved with nails as he was put on a cross. That scar bears my name so to speak. It was for me that he went to the cross. I am engraved in the palms of his hands. Knowing this changes the way we live. It is to higher purpose than survival we are called. We have been created and uniquely designed by God to fulfill His purpose upon the earth. In even the smallest ways of our daily lives we impact the present and prepare the future.
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Alan, Loved your post! We can get so off track sometimes with worldly things. Even if we are in church every Sunday. Yesterday I was suppose to be showing a new referral from out of state around Norfolk, and viewing a few homes in their price range. When morning came and I had not heard from them or the referral agent, I use the day to spend time with my husband and grand-kids. We took the Ferry from Surry to Jamestown, which the kids loved, then we had us a picnic over looking the James River, I took a little walk with my granddaughter, and Thank The Lord for all the Blessings in my life. Spending Saturday with my loved ones and really feeling the presence of God in my life was AWESOME!