HE knows ME!

When I came back to this post, I was really hoping I had already started writing something here... but nope... there was just the title.  How do I begin to humanize the feeling in this?  It's a lot easier to comprehend that we can 'go' to a place to experience God or be in a set of 'desirable circumstances' where God will be and meet us.

But what about when I'm not paying attention?  Does He know me then?  How about when I trip and fall?  And even when I knowingly do something wrong?  Does He care about who I am then? Or do I get lost in the sea of people...?

Romans 9:28 (MSG) God doesn't count us; he calls us by name. Arithmetic is not his focus.

He knows my name.  

Jeremiah 1:5 (MSG) "before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;"

and further more, He cares about what happens to me... 

Jeremiah 29:11-14 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will come upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity."

It's easy to read this and go "MmHmm, I understand" but this is way deeper!  Of all the people in the whole wide world, God knows who I am, cares about what happens to me, and is calling ME home.  He does not want ME to get lost!  

(a moment to pause about that right there..)

God, the One who made the grass and the cows who graze, the One who made the sky and the birds that fly, the One who MADE the sun and who GAVE His Son... this God loves me and cares for ME.  

(even though I did all those things...? even though... even when...) 

Yes.

His Love is more powerful than ALL of that.  His Love embraces me, His Blood washes me, He makes me new.  I matter.  AND (and this is the best) God loves EVERYBODY in this way!  He loves YOU and YOU and YOU! 

Thank you Jesus! for knowing me, for loving me, and for making me new!