“He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!” (Psalm 147:3-5 NLT)
Most of us struggle to wrap our minds around the enormity of our God’s capacity to care, to understand, and to help. He is unlimited in His resource of strength, knowledge, and ability. For example, by multiplying the number of stars per galaxy by the number of galaxies, scientists estimate the total number of stars in the universe to be roughly 10²² to 10²⁴, or up to one septillion stars, yet, the Lord calls them each one by name. And we’re concerned He’s going to lose track of the measly 8 billion people on our little planet.
It’s easy to believe, especially if we don’t know the Lord, that He’s too busy caring about everyone else’s issues to know what’s going on with each of us, but that’s not the case at all. In fact, He even knows the number of hairs on our head, which of course, is easier with some of us than others. But more importantly, He knows the deep thoughts that we struggle to understand and the emotions that entangle us and bring endless tears.
As my personal issues intensify and I find tears harder to hold back, it drives me to my Father’s heart as I know He captures my tears and understands my deep longings. Life is hard and it can get harder as we age, but I’m comforted to know the Lord is with me and for me. A. W. Tozer addressed this when he wrote: “An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.”
That reinforces the idea the Bible conveys that the Lord loves each of us as if we were the only child He had to love. But here’s the mind-blowing part of that idea – even if someone has never heard of Him, or even if you don’t know Him as Lord and Savior, He knows every detail of your life and still loves you with His whole heart, enough that He allowed His only Son to die for you. You have the Lord’s full attention when you speak with Him. Are you taking advantage of that great privilege? Often throughout my day, even as I’m struggling to type these words, I’m communicating with the Lord my deep need of Him and my desire to please and honor Him with every fiber of my being.
But need alone isn’t sufficient to touch the heart of God. Yes, of course, He hears when we call out to Him, but like any loving parent, my sense is He loves it when we come to Him, not only because we have needs, but when we come simply to be with Him and to love Him for who He is. He’s not human and He doesn’t need anything, but it’s helpful to us to love Him for more than what we perceive we can get out of Him.
He can’t be manipulated or tricked into doing something for us that is out of His character to do. He responds to us with complete understanding of not only what we’re asking, but why. That’s why He knows perfectly who belongs to Him and who does not. Which raises the logical question: Do YOU belong to Him? Have you given Him your life by faith?
The Prophet Isaiah reminds us: “What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord, who do their evil deeds in the dark! ‘The Lord can’t see us,’ they say. ‘He doesn’t know what’s going on!’ How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and He is certainly greater than you, the clay!” The greatest human intellect is like that of a gnat compared to the Lord. For someone to believe they can outsmart the Lord or think they know better or more than Him is to magnify their ignorance and increase their need of pity. As the Psalmist confirms: “For You are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God!”
If you don’t know Him, please tap on anewstory.com and let Ron Hutchcraft walk you through a helpful explanation as to why you need Him and how to accept His invitation to a new life you may never have imagined existed.
Blessings, Ed 😊
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