We matter to God - Luke 12:7 with a story, an observation and a prayer

SCRIPTURE: Luke 12:7 (The Message)
And he pays even greater attention to you, down to the last detail - even numbering the hairs on your head! So don't be intimidated by all this bully talk. You're worth more than a million canaries.

A STORY told by Gene Scott:
A few months ago, I went with my family to see the movie “Aladdin.” The theater filled rather quickly. On the way in, a young man stopped and joined the long line at the refreshment counter. By the time he got into the theater the lights were already dim. He scanned the theater and evidently couldn’t find his family. Well, we watched him pace up and down the aisles searching the crowd in the near darkness. As the lights began to go down even further, he stopped and asked out loud, “Does anyone here recognize me?”

AN OBSERVATION:
It is easy today, especially with the economic and unemployment climate of our day, to feel insignificant. That somehow we really do not matter. That no one even knows that we exist. That we really are not that important as life goes.

And yet, God thinks that we are so important that he has gone so far as to number the hairs on our head. We do matter. Our existence is important. God has designed life to include us. And, he recognizes us even when we get lost in the darkened world that surrounds us and cannot find our way.

PRAYER:
Thank you for embracing us with your divine love, Eternal Creator God that we matter to life’s ongoing purpose and design. Amen