Meditation Moments 11/29/10- Special in the Eyes of God
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Do you know how special you are in the sight God? Do you know how blessed you are to be in the presence of such Greatness? People that are in the presence of Lebron James feel fortunate, people who are in the presence of Oprah feel fortunate, people in the presence of Barack Obama feel fortunate but do we feel forutanate to be in the presence of the Almighty God, the One who created each of those individuals? When we became Christians, we took on a life that provided us completeness, stability, blessings, hope and a host of other things, not to forget salvation (being saved!!!) We took on a life that gave the way and the means to be different, better, peculiar, SPECIAL!!! This being considered, we did not take on a life that is the proverbial, walk in the park. This life comes with the challenge of an enemy that creates trials, temptations, misdirection, deception, confusion, and among all and including all, SIN!!! He puts obstacles in our way to make us stumble. He doesn't let up! He is an enemy of God, not of you!!! It makes it all the harder for us because he wants nothing more than for us to turn away from God, our Father. Before the world began God put together a SPECIAL plan, with a SPECIAL purpose so that all who obey Him could live a SPECIAL life. He thought about us and that makes us special. The chosen children of God in the Old Testament had disobeyed God and were under an imperfect covenant created because they broke the covenant with God through their disobedience but when Jesus came to die on the cross, it laid to rest the Old Covenant and created a perfect, New Covenant where we could make spiritual sacrifices and not physical sacrifices, where we could have a perfect mediator and not a man (the Levitical priests of the OT) mediating for us and, most importantly, He gave us an opportunity to be a member of a Kingdom that could never be defeated or destroyed because He gave victory before we started fighting the war with Satan. All of this makes us special in His eyes. So what does this mean for us? How can we show Him that we value Him as our Creator, Saviour and Almighty God? How can we show Him that we feel fortunate to be in His Holy and Divine presence? We show Him by letting our lights shine, by glorifying God in our bodies, by loving our enemies, by acknowledging His power through displaying great patience when we feel our carnal man getting impatient. We show Him that we feel fortunate to be in His presence by making time to study His word, instead of finding time in our busy schedules. We show Him by sharing the Gospel with our friends, relatives and neighbors. This is what makes us Special in the Eyes of God!!! he sees a young man and a young woman that is capable of accomplishing Spritual greatness, not the Greatness He Holds but the greatness that stimulated through our righteous living. He is worthy of our praise but are we proving our worth to Him through our work in Him.
Pslams 139:13-14 says, "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
We are God's wonderful creation and he gave us all potention and talents to fullfill his purpose."
