"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" Ps. 8:3-4, ESV
Have you looked at the heavens lately? As a teenager, I used to stare at the stars and wonder what God was like. How did He make those stars? How did He create all the galaxies? Was He up there? And did He really care about me? Why would He?
Looking back on my life, I can see just how much God cared about an insignificant teenage girl filled with such fear and anxiety that breakfast couldn't be kept down on most days, so I only drank coffee or hot tea. I can see the way He worked through the people and circumstances of every-day-life to bring me to a time of victory after experiencing several defeats. While working on To Love Someone, I reread my diaries, and I was thrilled to see that as a teenager I had written, "I love God!", on one of the pages, and I went to church more than I thought I had at that age. So many things I'd forgotten. I did remember the heartaches, the disappointments, the rejections. It's funny how I always remember the negative things. But I was pleasantly surprised at all the good things the Lord had done for me. And I saw with fresh eyes how He engineered the meeting of my future husband who was not even a blip on my radar--but like the moon and the stars, God set him in place in my life at just the right time.
I'm so grateful God is mindful of us. I am so grateful He loves us and cares for us. It's almost inconceivable that the One who made the moon and the stars, the planets and the galaxies, and all creation cares for us and has plans for us. But He does. Plans that are good, pleasing, and for our good (Jeremiah 29:11). All we have to do is trust in Jesus and follow Him.
