Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Called by name

Have you wondered why God has such use for you? I certainly have. Why would an all-powerful being need someone as worthless as myself?

The Bible describes this miracle thusly:
" Hosea put it well:  I'll call nobodies and make them somebodies;
I'll call the unloved and make them beloved.
In the place where they yelled out, "You're nobody!"
they're calling you "God's living children."
Isaiah maintained this same emphasis:
If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered
and the sum labeled "chosen of God,"
They'd be numbers still, not names;
salvation comes by personal selection.
God doesn't count us; he calls us by name.
Arithmetic is not his focus."

He calls nobodies and makes them somebodies, and he knows our names.

The creator of the universe knows us by NAME.

When we are at our worst, when circumstances are at their lowest, we can be assured of what comes next. God is for us, who can be against us? He knows us by name and he has called us by name.

Worthless? Not in God's eyes. That means everything to me.

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