Day 4: Only One you

I am an ant.

A tiny speck in a sea of ants.

Actually,

probably more like a grain of sand.

If someone looked for me from an airplane,

they would never find me.

And guess what?

Neither would they find you.

Hmm.

That doesn't sound very encouraging, does it?

But maybe it is.

Because

I"T'S NOT ABOUT ME".

It never was.

When I look at the vastness of creation,

I realize how incredibly small I am~

"I look up at Your macro-skies, dark and enormous, Your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do You bother with us? Why take a second look our way?"(Psalm 8:3–4, MSG)

Stop for just a second.

Really stop.

Look up.

The sky will remind you of something you were never meant to forget.

GOD

is so much bigger than you.

And that isn't meant to make you feel smaller.

It is meant to make

GOD

look bigger.

Because

IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.

Yet here's what amazes me.

The GOD who created the galaxies

also created the ants.

The grains of sand.

And...

YOU.

I feel oh so tiny right now and I love it.

UN~INVISIBLE IN HIS SIGHT

as HE holds onto me and HE holds onto you

into forever.

Out of all HE created,

HE KNOWS your name.

HE SEES your heart.

HE HEARS your prayers.

Not because you are the center of the universe.

But because

HE is a loving FATHER.

The world says,

"Make life about yourself."

JESUS says, "Follow ME."

The world says, "Make your name great."

JESUS says, "I already know your name."

The world says, "Be seen."

JESUS says, "I SEE YOU."

Because through CHRIST,

you are never invisible to 

GOD.

JESUS said,

"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from ME, for MY FATHER has given them to ME, and HE is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the FATHER'S hand.

The FATHER and I are ONE" (John 10:28-30).

What incredible security.

Not because I am holding onto HIM.

But because HE is holding onto me.

That changes everything.

So when I look up at the sky and ask,

"Who am I?"

I hear my heavenly

FATHER respond like a proud papa~

"See, I have engraved you on the palms of MY hands"(Isaiah 49:16).

I stand in awe.

For if you were just an ant HE could pick you out in an instant.

I don't mind being an ant.

Because I belong to the ONE who created the universe.

And if

the CREATOR knows our names,

we don't have to spend our lives,

trying to make a name for ourselves.

Because...

IT'S NOT ABOUT ME.

It's about the

ONE

who MADE us,

KNOWS us,

HOLDS us,

and LOVES us.

So stop for just a second.

Really stop.

Look up.

The more you see how great

HE IS,

the less you need life to be about

 YOU.

And suddenly,

you'll discover there is

"NOTHING MORE THAN YOU, JESUS"

(Listen to the song below)