The creator of the Universe, who set the stars and planets in motion; who set nine rocks around one star, chose one the perfect distance from that star so He could put people on it, and then made it habitable; who populated the waters of the planet with creatures we've only begun to discover, and the earth with creatures who move in such a relationship with each other as to keep the whole system moving and vibrant; who created man in His own image and breathed a living Spirit into him -- that God loves you.
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
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.
(Psalm 8: 3-5)
What, indeed, is man, that God is mindful of him? And yet, He loves you. He loves you so much, He sent His only Son -- indeed an aspect of Himself -- to become one of us, to be beaten, to be mocked, and to be murdered. He sent Jesus Christ to become a final sacrifice, a door and a bridge back to Himself, even while humanity reveled in its own sin and greed and pride, and walked further away. Even while we were born unable to shake the mire in which humanity is soaked, and so stuck that we couldn't walk to Him, He came to us (Romans 5:8).
Whatever you have going on; whatever other people think about you, or what you think others think; whatever you think about yourself -- God loves you.
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