Throughout history gold has been a highly-valued commodity. During the Gold Rush, many people left everything...homes. families, some devoting their entire lives to the pursuit of it. God is a treasure far more precious than all the wealth on Earth, but unlike gold, He is not hard to find. He truly is a God who shows Himself. His truths are richly woven into the fabric of all creation. Our greatest insight into the very heart and mind are the Scriptures, but to find the real treasure, we must dig deep into the remote recesses of the Rock himself. One thing you will most certainly discover is the deeper you dig, the deeper He gets. In all eternity we will never be able to plumb the depths of God. It is my hope that perhaps through my own search for that 'Treasure above all Treasures' you will find something which will have some meaning for you. R.Whelan

Sunday, December 18, 2011

HE NUMBERS THE HAIRS ON YOUR HEAD

There seems to be much ado about a young man named Tim Tebow lately and the open display of his faith. I won't go into the controversy surrounding this young man, mostly because I cannot claim to have kept up on any of it in great detail. However, I do have a comment in regards to a statement I've heard made all to often. Yet I cannot recall anyone publicly refuting it. Everyone seems to just let it stand as though it were fact.

This week a commentator made the statement that "God is far too busy with more important things than whether someone wins, or loses, a football game, or a bingo game or any other such trivial thing." I beg to differ.

Luke 12:7 says that, "even the very hairs of your head are all numbered".

I dare say that a God who loves you so much that at any given moment, He can tell you how many hairs you have on your head is very concerned about everything in your life, even things as seemingly trivial as a ballgame.

God tells us He is our Father. Now I have seen parents count a child's fingers and toes when they were born. I even know parents who love their children enough to be willing to lay down their life for them, but I have yet to see an earthly parent who can tell you the numbers of hairs on their child's head at any given moment.

The point is this, our heavenly Father considers us of great worth. He proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt at Calvary. God knows and cares about every detail of our lives. Everything, everything that happens to us is of the greatest importance to Him, because all those things play a part in shaping who we are and who we will become.

He loves us so much that He will do whatever it takes to get us go to where He wants us to be. He will put people and events in our path, He will do whatever it takes to hopefully guide us into becoming the people He wants us to be.

It is my firm belief that there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason and that reason is this, the Lord says, "before you were in the womb I knew you". He also says, "For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future".

We, of course still have freewill to choose many of the outcomes in our life, but He has made it clear, at least to me, that He will do His best to accomplish His best for us.

There are a lot of things to be learned in seeming little things like winning, or losing, a ballgame. Oh yes, I believe very strongly everything that happens to us, even those seemingly trivial things, matter a great deal to our heavenly Father, because He loves us.© 2012 Rachel Whelan