All right, perhaps I have been thinking/questioning/pondering too much:
I am always wondering this:
Do I matter?
I am not supposed to matter, right? God alone matters. I am to die to myself. Less of me and more of Him.
The question itself is selfish and self-focused, pulling away from God's glory, right?
Okay.
If I don't matter, then why do I exist? Why should I exist? Why should I continue to exist?
To glorify God.
If I don't matter, then God doesn't need me to glorify Him.
True, but God doesn't NEED me to glorify Him. He wills that I should glorify Him. He is God and requires that I glorify Him even if I am nothing. The rocks SEEK to glorify Him.
That is my existence?
In His presence, do I matter? Why? How? How much?
He created you in His image. He set you apart from the animals. You are of worth far greater than a raven and He knows when a raven dies. How much?! So much that He would choose to die for you.
But if some are determined to wrath, then we could say that He didn't die for them. (CALVIN!!) Then, do they matter?
"God so loved the world that He sent His only Son."
We can call Him "Abba, Father." Jesus and the Holy Spirit INTERCEDE for us in our weaknesses. He chose to have a relationship with us.
Is this a stupid question to ask? I have no value, but He has chosen to value me. He has chosen to redeem me with His blood. I am His adopted daughter.
How easy I forget that. How much I should meditate on that idea!
It is by His grace that we can matter -- to Him.
3 comments:
Caedmon's Call -- Bus Driver. everyone matters, even teachers!
Alicia, thanks for blogging. I just found your blog and I appreciate the pointed topics you deal with, but how you explore all the avenues of that topic. It is as if you have camp out on a neighborhood and explore all the streets and houses there. I also appreciate the fact that write in questions.
Anyways, after that extraneous analysis of your blog :) I just wanted to say, thanks for writing.
I concur with MJ. Explore the streets. And in exploring let us marvel at the cyclical and multifaceted plan in which God chooses to display His glory. The methods might be the side streets but main street is God's plan to glorify Himself.
From our gratitude that He would chose to our amazement that it actually worked - God gets the glory. I look forward to blogpost 09!
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