Does God Care?

Psalm 8
"Who is man that you are mindful of him?...."

He sees a need and He sends me there
I go because He says" I care"
I wonder sometimes if I do too much,
baseball, Bible School, church and such.
Sometimes it consumes much of my time,
and it doesn't pay much, not even a dime.
Does it really matter these things I do?
Or will it be forgotten in a lifetime or two?

Then the evidence begins to show,
like a seed when planted starts to grow.
Like the Good book says "we reap what we sow"
I may never figure out the why or the how
but a life has been changed even if not now.
Someone maybe got the message that said "I care"
That is why God sent me there.

If I had to guess as to which attribute of God were the hardest to fathom it would be His love. It seems one of the most difficult things for us to believe is the greatness of Gods love for us . It may even be the last light bulb that goes off in our Christian Journey. I know it took me a while in my Faith Walk to actually realize just how wide and how deep God's love for me is. And believe it or not it was not the sudden realization of the death on the cross that did it. Sure it opened my eyes, but it was the love that was shown to me through the people God place in my life's journey that brought it home for me, that made it real for me. We can't discount the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ...not at all. It is an act though not so easily grasped in word as in deed. Didn't God after all use Jesus? Sometimes it is easier to grasp the impression left by the human touch or an act of kindness. I believe the love God has shown to us through Jesus is best imitated through each other. In fact it is because of the death and resurrection of Jesus that we are able to show this God like love. Jesus set the stage and though it is a hard act to follow, it is doable. I believe we learn to love by how we are loved. When you actually stop and let God love you you will begin to show that love to others. It may not come easy at first, maybe you weren't loved so well in the past. Maybe you lost the will to love or be loved. You are the one that God will use the most...why? Because you know what it's like not to be loved and God will use that in you to love others so that they will know! Remember God takes what the enemy meant for evil and uses it for good. Those precious gems we think we need to hide, that we think are unattractive and unusable...God cares about those!

What is God really like?

Hebrews 1:3, "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sin, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven."

God is many things. Can we even narrow it down to what He is "really" like? If we were perhaps to come up with a single phrase or paragraph that would encompass the likeness of God what would what would it read? If you read the Bible you will find that God is, among many things, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite and wise. God is Love, God is eternal, God is everything to everyone...God is the word that we read...the list my friend goes on and on and on. Whatever it is it won't be enough and will have an endless volume of revisions. This is not to say that God changes, it is to say however that as our faith walk continues we are continually discovering new and wonderful things about God and many of them are "indescribable". The likeness of God is a constant continuum of what He is in our lives . And who he is in our lives can be the same or quite different than in the lives of others. We do not need to know the in's and out's and why's of God. We only need to know who He is to us that we might be that to others. I believe that the more you experience God the more you come to know Him. If we do not allow God to manifest His character in our lives we cannot begin to know who He is. Like all relationships it doesn't just happen....we are called to make it happen, to seek God with all of our hearts all of our souls and all of our minds. God promises to honor that and in return He will reveal himself to us in very unique and personal ways.

It is through Jesus, His son that God has revealed His love to us. Jesus allowed God to be manifested in His life and as we come to know and walk with Jesus we come to know God the Father. Is it possible for the People in your life to know who God is by knowing you?

"The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being....."

If you want to know God then know Jesus His Son. If you want to know what God is really like then you must walk the steps of Jesus. Because Jesus is God the Son. Jesus is the Love of God living among us, inside us and through us.