March 29, 2012
Years
ago that was the trademark line of Detective Kojak on TV. But have you ever really thought about who
really loves you? That is the inherent need
for every human being, to love and be loved. It doesn’t matter what we have in life, where
we live, what we do or how we spend our time.
The bottom line is that we want to love and be loved. We can be at the top of our game or be at the
lowest point in our life. We still want
to be loved, by someone who cares about us and our well-being.
Recently
my grandson got his feelings hurt while playing with all of his cousins and
sort of disappeared for a very brief time to see if we had missed him. It didn’t take him long to appear in front of
me crying “Doesn’t anyone even care?” To
be honest, I’ve said the same thing many times over the years. We all want verification that we are
important. We all need affirmation that
we are loved on a regular basis. Without
love, what is left?
We
are loved by family and close friends. Often
times it comes from strangers. “How can
that be?” you might ask. “How could
someone who doesn’t even know me love me?”
What about loving you before you were even born? Ever thought about that? Your parents loved you even before you were
born because you were, most likely, a product of their love between each other. And they had already decided beforehand that
you were going to be loved and loved dearly.
There
is someone else who loved you before you were even thought about. In fact He created you. God loved you so much before you were even
born many years ago. He created a world
for you to live in. He created the food
you eat. He created the water you drink
and bathe in and wash your clothes in.
He created the air you breathe.
In fact, He created you in His image!
Think about that for a moment.
God thinks so highly of you that you were created to bear His image and
provides everything you need to sustain you.
“So God created mankind in his
own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created
them. God blessed them and said to them,
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over
the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature
that moves on the ground.” Then God said,
“I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every
tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the
birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything
that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it
was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was
evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” Genesis 1:27-31
So
do you feel loved now? God made you more
important than the fish and the animals.
And there are some very beautiful fish and animals that He created. He created you special. You are beautiful. You are God’s masterpiece.
Think
about what life would be like if God created it differently from the way He
did. We could have had dark skies all
the time, grass that hurts when we walk on it, food that doesn’t taste good and
people incapable of love. God made this
world and it is so beautiful. If you are
in doubt, try Googling nature photos.
When visiting the Grand Canyon for the first time my comment was “If
anyone doubts God created everything, they won’t now!”
Do
you go through daily living appreciating people and the things around you? Or do you complain about what is wrong with
the world. God created everything and
said it was good. The bad in the world
is a result of sin and Satan. We can
exist, even with the bad, and realize how loved we are and appreciate
everything. Don’t miss life by being
preoccupied by its flaws. Instead of
taking off your shoes to feel the feathery grass beneath our feet, we complain
that it’s growing so fast we don’t have time to mow it. We complain that traffic is too slow. We look in the mirror and find that our nose
is too big or our hair looks terrible.
And we complain about all the sin in the world. But guess what? God loved you so much that He did something very
profound so that you can be free from sin which results in death.
“This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and
only Son into the world that we might live through him. This
is love: not that we loved
God, but that he loved us and
sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:9-10
“For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16
God made a way for you to escape sin’s grip. All you have to do is accept His gift of
eternal life! When you do you will find
that you are truly living. So let me ask
you again. Who loves ya, baby? God does!
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