GOD SEES!

My sweet 9 year boy said to me this morning with tears rolling down his cheeks, "Why don't I just forget about all my dreams.  I always change my mind.  I said I wanted to be a Ninja and now I want to be a Spy.  I said I want to be a ghost hunter, but now I'm not. "  In his deep desire to have a real crystal he continued amidst his tears, "I just want something that can be special to me, mom.  Something that I can cherish.  All I have are toys.  All my friends have crystals, but I don't have any..."

I wonder if there is anyone reading this that feels the same way about their desires and dreams.  Are there desires that you are passionate about, but feel hopeless in?  Do you feel like no one cares?

Towards the end of this past summer we had a lot of neighborhood kids that would come to our house and play outside.  There was this one little girl in particular that caught my heart.  She was probably 4.  One day as the weather was getting colder, all the kids were playing in our backyard.  I was in the kitchen and took a look outside to see how things were going.  As I took a scan of the backyard I saw the little girl sitting on our lounge chair.  She looked cold in her little tank top, shorts, and no shoes.  So I went outside to ask her if she was alright.  Her hair was tangled and her face, hands and feet were dirty, but she still looked so cute and precious to me.

She told me that her foot hurt from jumping off the swingset.  So I picked her up and said, "why don't we go inside and I'll take a look at it".  I carried her right into the bathroom and set her down by the sink.  "Let's wash up these little feet first," I said.  I lovingly cleaned with soap between each little toe and around every part of her foot.  I then moved on to her hands as well.  I wanted to give her the best that I had, so I grabbed a new soft fluffy towel and gently began drying off her feet and hands.  As I did this, she looked at me with her sweet little eyes and a soft smile and said, "Oh...that feels good."  I also took the wash cloth and cleaned off the dirt from her face.  "Now I can see your pretty face," I said. And prompted her to look in the mirror.

God's love in my heart wanted to give her the best of everything I had.  I would have given her a bath and washed her hair, bought her awesome cuddly pajamas, and wrapped her in the softest blanket and held her on my lap if I could have. 

The point I want to make is that there is no one that is insignificant to God.  God sees the heart of my little boy and his dreams and desires, he sees the little girl in my backyard, and He SEES you!  He cares.   Even if you feel like you are insignificant, alone, and no one sees you...GOD SEES!  He saw the little girl in my backyard, and He sent me out to her to pour His love on her.  The world may have seen her as an insignificant dirty unkept little girl, but I saw her as precious, valuable, and beautiful.  It doesn't matter how the world sees you.  God sees you as precious, valuable, and the apple of His eye!

Did you notice how I was gentle with this little girl and paying attention to every detail, wanting to lavish my love on her?  That is how God takes care of you, but even better in ways we sometimes can't even understand!!!!!!!!!

That day I was filled with more joy than I can express!  God is also filled with an even more immense joy when He pours His love out on you and me in our great need!

Our greatest desire is to be loved, and our greatest need is to be saved from our sins and God's wrath that we deserve.  God fulfills both of those through sending His only Son, Jesus Christ, to take our place and take on our punishment.  What greater love is there?  Really?... Think of it in these terms, if you did something that warranted the death penalty, and there was definitely no changing your sentence, but someone stepped in and said "no, no...I love you and I will gladly take the punishment onto myself.  You are free now."

God loves you so much He sent Jesus to do just that for you!  The bible says in Romans 5:8, "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."  Doesn't that touch your heart!  It does mine! I'm so glad God Sees me!

I pray for you that God will give you an awareness of His love for you and you will know that HE SEES you!  

Don't forget when you leave this page that God cares about your life!