Consider
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
Psalms 8:3-4 (NIV)
It's all too easy to drift through life, caught up in the busyness of family and work and leisure and whatever else, without any consideration of the meaning of life. Yet even if we were to consider the wonders of creation, it should cause us to marvel. When we consider the vastness of the universe, it's amazing that God has any mindfulness towards us.
In scale we might seem more insignificant to God than ants seem to us.Yet the Lord Jesus Christ became one of us to reconcile us to God. He didn't need to, it was purely out of love that He has done so.
Mankind is cared for by God because He made us in His image and likeness. We might be made out of the dust of the earth, but we also have the breath of God in our lungs. We can be born again by the Holy Spirit of God to become spiritually alive.
It's because of Christ's sacrifice on our behalf that we can have eternal life. It's because of His immeasurable love that He gave Himself for us. Because He died, we can live forevermore.
'Creator God, we wonder at all that You have made. We rejoice at Your care for us, insignificant though we may often feel in the grand scheme of things. Help us to know Your great love for us in Your Son, in whose name we pray, amen'.
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