Ever since I was a kid, I’ve longed for friendship with people. If someone mentioned or talked about me in a good way, it always uplifted and made me feel warm. Why wouldn’t it? This mentality even extended into areas one might not think of. If my name was used as a character’s name in a book, I would get giddy because I would think if someone I knew by chance read my name, they might think of me.
But I’ve come to realize that my priorities were out of place. Even that last example was a far stretch because it was “by chance.” Even if we consider our spouse, significant other, parents, or kids who think about us all the time (or vice versa), the quantities and depths of thought and love they give us is absolutely minuscule compared to the way God feels and cares for us.
In Psalm 139:17–18 (NIV), David says:
17 How precious to me are Your thoughts, God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with You.
That’s the love God has for us! The gravity is overwhelming and the amount is incomprehensible—and the only natural and proper reaction is to fall on our face and worship at His nail-pierced feet!
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