You Are Precious to God!

Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5



      My dear reader, do you realize how precious you are to God?   He made you, formed you, and before you were born put His stamp of approval upon you!   You are chosen of God, set apart to do a mighty work with your life for Him!   He made you specifically for that very thing!   Sure someone else could do it, but not as well as you because that plan and all the giftings it requires have been put by our Father God on the inside of YOU!!
     I told you I would be telling you some things in my life that some consider funny and this is one of them, and it relates to the way we view ourselves and the way God views us, which is according to this scripture!
     One Wednesday night I was at church.   I realized during the praise and worship part of the service I had forgotten my notebook I took notes in while my pastor ministered.   He said many good things, and I wanted to “chew” on them later and get them really good and solid in my heart!   My best friend was on my left and my husband was on my right.   I told her while everyone was standing, so that I would not be a distraction, I was going to slip out to the car and grab the notebook and would be right back.   I went as quickly as I possibly could and on my rush back in I was stopped by another lady of the church.   She had asked me for several days to look at a catalog of some products she was selling and was about to close an order.   I didn’t want to hurt her feelings so I grabbed it and began to flip through trying to find the cheapest thing possible because I knew I would never use it.
     There were two doors to the church with large windows on each door.   Since it was evening people could not see out, but people from the outside could see in.   I looked up and I saw the people of the church milling around.   The order of the service there was praise and worship (singing) took place first, then we shook hands with others, and then we sat down and the pastor would preach his message.   I told her we needed to hurry and get back in and I rushed for the doors.
     As I walked in one of our men approached me and said as he extended his hand to shake mine, “You are precious to God, Sister!”   I thought “Well, how nice!”   No sooner had the man passed me, my mother who attended my church, walked up to me and said, “You are so precious to God and I love you!”   I thought I was going to cry!   I told my mother how much I loved her and how touched I was that she would say that since church was trying to start and thanked her profusely!   Tears welled in my eyes as she smiled sweetly at me the walked on.   As she walked away another lady approached me and said, “I hope you know just how precious to God you are!”   I mean what are the odds???   I REALLY was precious to God!   I mean I know the Bible says it and I had heard it from the pulpit all of my life (I have been in church since I was a one week old baby and that is no exaggeration), but God was CONFIRMING IT!!   I felt so special!   All of a sudden I felt like I was walking on air!   I thought of the scripture that says God will confirm His word out of the mouth of two or three witnesses and three people had told me that!   I mean He REALLY wanted me to know that I was precious to Him!   I floated back to my seat, grabbed my best friend and said, “You will never guess what just happened to me!!!”   The look on her face went from a smile to concern, “What?”, she asked.   “Three people just walked up to me and told me I am PRECIOUS TO GOD!!!”   Her look went from concern to “are you daft??”   “What is the matter?” I asked her.   She replied, “He (the music minister) just told all of us to go to three people and tell them how precious to God they are.   It wasn’t just you, it was everyone.”
     I can’t tell you the feeling that came over me.   Sheer and utter disappointment that God had not orchestrated all those “words of knowledge” to let me know I was precious to Him.   As the cloud left my feet and I began to come back down to earth, the Lord spoke this to me. “Don’t you know from my word and the daily things I do for you that you are precious to Me? Did you need people to tell you for you to believe it?” Why do we need people to say, “Yes, that is right and that is what God wants you to know and believe!”   Does what people say have more of an effect on us than God Himself?   I realized something I NEEDED to realize. No matter what anybody else says, thinks, or does towards me, it does not change what God says, thinks, or does toward me! It does not and cannot change His amazing and rich love for me and the fact I am blessed beyond measure and I am on my way to Heaven!
     Today, dear reader, I want to tell you, YOU are PRECIOUS to God!   But, if I or no one else ever said that to you, it doesn’t change the FACT that you are!   Remember in my earlier post, God is FOR you!   You cannot lose with Him on your side no matter what people may or may not say!   Remember you are the blessed and according to Numbers 23:19, that blessing CANNOT be reversed because God cannot lie!   Glory to God, you can’t get better news than that!
     Thank you for stopping by, dear reader and go in the blessing of God and never forget how precious you are to Him!!