To God, You Are Special

God’s smile is upon you. You light up His face
as much as anyone has ever lit up a lover’s face.

Most of us imagine that in God’s eyes we are just one of millions.
We know most people don’t think we are important and so we assume
God thinks of us in a similar way. But then, again, God is not like
‘most people.’ We feel that God has favorites and we think we’re a fair
way down the list, but we are about to see this is one way where feelings
do not correspond to reality. To God, you are special.

Reasons why God favors no one over you:

-God’s Son shed His last drop of blood for you. God loves you with His whole heart. He loves you with every speck of his enormous love. That means no matter how much He loves others, He couldn’t possibly love anyone else more than He loves you.

You may say, “God loves me with His whole heart? Come off it! It’s a wonder He loves me at all!" Then read John 17:23:

"I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

Christ is in you – and God loves you as much as He loves Christ. And no way can God’s love for Christ be half-hearted.

Scripture makes no promise that you will always feel loved, nor that circumstances will always make it obvious that you are loved. God simply promises that you are loved. No suffering or tragedy will ever separate you from God’s love (Romans 8:35-39).

The more you love someone the more important that person is to you. So the fact that God loves you with His whole heart means you are more important to God than you could ever imagine.

-Before God forgave us we were all spiritually dead. Scripture affirms that every person on this planet was dead in their sin. You can’t get any deader than dead. God couldn’t say, I prefer her because she’s a little less dead than him.

But through Christ we can be forgiven. When God looks at a forgiven person, he can’t find one sin. When you are forgiven, God can’t find a person on the entire planet, more forgiven than you.

So without Christ we were all equally dead in our sin and in Christ we are all equally forgiven.

-God is all-powerful. That means He doesn’t need some people more than others.

If God could only use young people, or strong people, or rich people, or famous people, or educated people, then God must be so weak that He needs human strength; so poor that he needs us to give Him a few dollars; so foolish that He needs human education. He doesn't really need us for much more than companionship and love.

-The Lord loves using small and seemingly unimportant things.

1 Corinthians 1:26 says, ‘Look at what you were before God called you. Not many of you were wise by human standards. Not many of you had great influence. Not many of you came from important families. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and He chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose what this world thinks is unimportant and what this world looks down on and thinks is nothing in order to bring to nothing what the world thinks is important. God did this,’ the Bible continues, ‘so that no one could boast in his presence.’