Opening Blog…who’s exicted?

Recently, my wife was in an accident and I was reminded of how fragile life can be. She’s fine today and will take 2 or 3 weeks to be back at 100%, but when someone you love gets hurt in any way, you are forced to take a step back and reevaluate what’s important in life.

So what is important in life? Ha! You’re crazy if you think I’m going to begin to tell anyone what is important in their lives. For everyone it is different, although most would agree that loved ones – whether they be family or friends or pets come pretty close to the top. See, I’m more interested in what is not important. The list of what isn’t important is going to be a lot more comprehensive and might give us a better idea of the way we tend to think.

So, when things are tough for us – when we have cause to question God’s presence in our lives, we need to remind ourselves what is and – more importantly, what isn’t important to us. It is important to remember we are loved, it isn’t important to stress over how popular we are.

This might be what Paul was referring to in Romans 11:1-6 when he discusses God’s grace for the nation of Israel. What are the people of God stressing over? Will we make it into heaven? Does God still love us? How can we know, and if we don’t, then what is the point? So Paul answers that in the past when things haven’t gone so great, God still loved and saved God’s people – at least the ones who still cared about what God thought – and God will continue to love God’s people forever and ever.

You are God’s person. Don’t forget that. There is nothing you can do to stop being God’s person. God has already begun to love you and there is nothing you can do to prevent that love. God has shown that God’s love doesn’t fail and that is one of the most important things in life. We love each other because God first loved us. We know how to love, because we are taught by God, by our parents, by our friends, by our pets even.

We need not worry about the love in our lives – at least not by God. God loves us no matter what, even when we get angry at God and don’t understand why your wife was in an accident. I know that God loves my wife, and didn’t cause her accident. I also know that when she was by herself in the hospital, before our friends and family arrived, and before I got there, God was with her. God is always with us and that is important to know.

~ by djones58 on February 5, 2008.