It is so easy for us to get caught in the tiny details of daily life: the laundry, the bills, the status of the gas tank, the failure or success of that last sales call; the numbers in the bank account going up, going down; the continuous work that is never complete and takes up 95% of the available space between our ears. But in moments throughout the day, I try remembering the point of all this. Bethany Jennings wrote a reminder, sung so beautifully in the song, "As You Find Me":
I was found before I was lost,
I was Yours before I was not
Those lyrics remind us that we are not afterthoughts of God. Under piles of laundry, on challenging sales calls, and empty gas tanks, our very existence is written on the palms of His hands.
"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget,
I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
Your children hasten back,
and those who laid you waste depart from you." Isaiah 49:15-17 NIV
John tells us that the essence of God is love. His love is permanent. Visible. Irremovable. Beyond time. And our Lord is complete in a way we can't possibly imagine. He is literally the source of everything; from the beginning all the way to the end. He needs absolutely nothing from us. And yet … and yet, there is something we can offer that He wants deeply. As You Find Me reminds us:
You are faithful and you are gracious
And I'm just grateful
To think You don't need a single thing
And still You want my heart.
"As You Find Me" (Live) – Hillsong UNITED
by Carie Grant
