Recognize Your Worth.
Does God really care about me? How do you recognize your worth? Who or what gives you value? Matthew 10 points to the Father’s care and concern for you: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:28-30).
There is this nagging, dark, sinister, incessant thought that trickles through the human mind: “Does God really care about me? Does He give me a second thought? Am I a concern or is He too busy with all the other things of life?”
Short answer: He does Care about you!
Longer answer: He created the whole world before He created humans. This was to show that mankind is the pinnacle of creation. Every plant, every body of water, every patch of green grass, every plain, every flying creature, every beast of the field, was created to be for humans (Genesis 1-2). You are not an afterthought. You are the center of God’s thoughts.
Below there are several other passages that will also show, in varied ways, that God does care for you.
Passages to consider:
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
.”What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our LORD,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth” (Psalm 8:4-9)!
“…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:2).
“This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:3-4).
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him” (John 3:17).
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).
“The LORD your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing” (Zephaniah 3:17).
What to do?
Read through these passages and take some time to ruminate on their meaning. You will be confronted with a wrestling match between your thoughts and the Bible’s thoughts (God’s thoughts reflect love and concern for every human being; human thoughts are often skeptical about God and this is due to an internal flaw in us): “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
In the end, the Bible is fully truth - 100% truth. When God says He cares, it is because He cares.
As you take time to pore over each passage, each expression of truth, there is something that will happen inside of you: The Holy Spirit of God will be working to convince you that this truth is really true. He is planting these truths in your mind and in your heart. As you take time to read and reread these passages, as you take notes and decipher what they say, you will be taking the untruths “captive” and replacing them with the absolute truth, the truth of God in Christ. You will become more and more convinced that God does care about you.
You are worth the Father’s care and attention! This is why the Father, your Father, sent His Son to take your place under the justice and mercy of the cross.