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You Matter to God – Psalm 139
Are we significant in God’s eyes or are we only a dust speck? Is God really paying attention to me? Psalm 139:1-6
You know when I sit and when I rise; my going out and my lying down, you perceive my thoughts, you are familiar with all my ways, you hem me in, behind and before.
What kind of attention is this that God has for us? Is it a caring kind of attention? God is not indifferent or uncaring. When a fly is buzzing around us, we care about it and plan to swat it, but we actually do not care about the fly. God cares about us in a very personal way. Is God really paying attention to us? The answer is Yes!
Is God near me? Is He around? Psalm 139:7-12
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
God is everywhere but not in an arm-folded, cool kind of way. God’s presence desires to lead us and hold us, a caring presence. There is no place on earth where we can get away from God’s presence. Paul on Mars Hill said God is not far from any of us. Sometimes we feel far from God because of something we have done. We feel guilt. But if we have not sinned and we still don’t feel his nearness, we need to keep praising him. We can turn to him at any time. God is present for his people when they turn to him.
Did God really make me? Psalm 139:13-16
You knit me together in my mother’s womb, I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
The person who is doing the knitting is very involved in what they are making. If someone knows what they are doing, it will turn out the way it is planned. God has a plan when He knits in the womb, in how we are made. God is involved in the designing of each of us.
Is God really involved in my life?
When God hems us in, lays His hand on us and guides us, His eyes saw us before we were formed; all of these show God’s involvement in every part of our lives. Paul, in his Mars Hill sermon, said that in Him we live and have our being. We ask God’s involvement when we pray, “Search me, O God, and know my heart.” God doesn’t always answer immediately. He comforts us in our afflictions even though we would prefer that He remove it.
So why is God interested in me?
He made us and bought us with his own blood on the cross. He feels ownership and is our Creator. Some day our spirits will go back to the one who created us. So no, we are not dust specks in God’s eyes.
Galen had a story for the children about a boy who carved a boat and sailed it in the stream. The string broke, and it went down the stream. Later he found the boat, but it was being played with by another boy who had found it. So he bought it back with everything he had in his pockets. It belonged to him because he made it and bought it back.