How Can It Be?

Verse of the day: Psalm 8:4 What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visit him?

How can it be that God put such value on man that He has given His Son for our salvation? What are we in comparison to the rest of God's creation? When we consider how vast the heavens are, and the works of His hands, who are we to think that we deserve anything but eternal condemnation? We are weak and sinful. Outside of Jesus, we are wicked and we devise evil in our hearts (Jer 17:9). Yet, God was, and is, merciful toward us in that He offers us eternal life freely and deals with us, even when we sin against Him, in a such a way as to bring us back into fellowship with Him (Rm 2:4). When we consider how small we are in comparison to His angels (v. 5), and some of His other awesome creation (Job 41), how can we not wake up each day and not know that we, especially as born again believers, are blessed beyond what we know or even sometimes acknowledge? When God first created man, He gave man dominion over His creation (Gen 1:26). Yet, in all of this man rebelled against God (Gen 3). Now, Christ has dominion, and in Him, we too will have dominion. Do we not know that we will judge angels (1 Cor 6;3-4)? How incredible it is that we, one of God's weakest creations, have such high standing with God that He would give His only begotten Son for us. Hebrews 2:9 reads, "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man." The next time any of us begins to feel sorry for ourselves and begins to complain about what we do not have, or how bad our life is, especially if we already know Jesus as our Savior, let us stop and think that when we deserved to be destroyed, and suffer eternal condemnation, He chose to love us and save us (Rm 5:8). Let us give Him praise today for His goodness to us, and for the fact that He cares for such insignificant creatures as us, who have the honor not only being created in His image, but saved the One who is His express image, Jesus Christ (Heb 1:3).

Today, God extends an invitation to you to accept His free gift of salvation (Rom 6:23). Will you accept it? Anyone who calls on Jesus, by faith, in repentance, confessing their sins, will receive eternal life. Do not put off calling on Him, and receive Him and His free gift of salvation today (Rom 10:13).