With God, it’s personal …

It’s a beautiful Sunday morning!

In spite of the ongoing flurry of articles about the decline of the church, raising questions whether Christianity might just be dying in America, there are millions of people who poured into church sanctuaries this morning to worship the one, true, living God.

But for some, it will be more of a religious experience than a personal one.

Not for God.

When it comes to you, God makes it very personal!

There are many ways we can know this, but there’s a little snippet of scripture that jumps out at me and puts me in awe about how personal God gets about you and me. We see it when King David records in a Psalm how personal God was with him. Check it out …

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! – Psalm 139:17-18.

David was deeply moved that God thinks about him.

And God thinks about you and me, also!

God is not an impersonal deity sitting far removed of His creation, sleepily observing our goings-on.

Quite the contrary!

God thinks about you!

Not occasionally, but so often that His thoughts outnumber the grains of sand! And then, when you awake the next morning, He’s still with you!

Writer and pastor, Max Lucado, played on this idea of how personal God gets with us in his book, “A Gentle Thunder”:

“There are many reasons God saves you: to bring glory to himself, to appease his justice, to demonstrate his sovereignty. But one of the sweetest reasons God saved you is because he is fond of you.

“He likes having you around.

“He thinks you are the best thing to come down the pike in quite a while …

“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

“If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

“He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.

“Whenever you want to talk, he’ll listen.

“He can live anywhere in the universe, and he chose your heart.

“And the Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem? Face it, friend. He’s crazy about you!”

When it comes to you, God makes it very personal. He thinks about you. How about you with regard to Him?

Scotty