I was recently struck by a conversation I had with a young person. This person has tremendous talent, intelligence, and potential, and yet seemed to be crippled by self-doubt and regret over past decisions. I was moved by their pain and their feeling that they were alone in their struggle. The conversation moved me to think about the fact that we matter. All of us, individually, matter. . . to God. We have significance because of the shed blood of Christ. God designed this universe so that we would have a place to exist aned pursue a realtionship with Him. He planned each one of us, and the Bible tells us that He knew us in our mother's womb, and that His intimate knowledge of us existed before even time began. Additionally after our blowing it and contaminating all of humanity with the plague of sin, He sent Christ to suffer and die, to redeem us. I can't imagine anything that is more valuable than the blood of God. That blood was shed for each one of us, that we might have a personal relationship with Him. We matter. We matter more than you can possibly imagine, and we can spend our lives exploring this reality and never exhaust its depth. Something to think about.
More on this later.
