Do you sometimes feel like you are just a face in a crowd or a number in a system? You are identified by your social security number. Even when you see the doctor, you are called by your queue number. If you feel depersonalized and dehumanized, that is exactly how the devil wants you to feel — that you do not matter much to anyone, especially to God.
But you do matter to God! He
calls you by name. He knows exactly what you are going through and where you
are hurting. He sees you and cares for you, just as He cared for the people
when He first walked on earth.
My friend, He will do for you what He did for
the woman in Samaria. The Bible says that “He needed to go
through Samaria” to get from Judea to Galilee (John 4:4). Now, any Jew of His
day would have taken a different and longer route to avoid going through
Samaria because they hated the Samaritans, though the way through Samaria would
take much less time. But Jesus deliberately took the shorter, avoided route,
just so He could stop by Samaria to speak to the woman who had been searching
for something in her life to satisfy her.
This woman had had five husbands and the man
she was living with was not her husband. Clearly, things had not been going
right in her life. She was probably looking for answers and fulfillment, and
must have felt ashamed about her failed marriages and current lifestyle.
Yet, in spite of all this, she mattered to
Jesus! He needed to go to her to minister to her. And indeed,
after she met Jesus, the perfect Man, she was transformed. She was no longer
ashamed, and went into the city to tell the people about Him (see John
4:28–29).
Beloved, Jesus wants to meet you wherever you
are at in life and minister His grace to you. You certainly matter to Him. He
came to give you life and life more abundantly (see John 10:10). You are not
just a face in a crowd or a number. No, He knows you by name and has a personal
love for you. And in spite of the mess that you might be in, He wants to meet
your every need and make your life beautiful!
(Article & Picture; courtesy of
Joseph Prince Ministries, used with kind permission).
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