He knows why I've been having these thoughts. It's not the first time, but this time it seems to be part of an Isaiah 6 process; if so, it will be well worth it in the end.
Yesterday morning, though, a beautiful thought came to me. It has to do with you, too, so I knew I needed to share it.
Each relationship God has with someone is as individual as a fingerprint. Only you can have that particular walk He intended you to have with Him. Likewise, God designed each person to blossom into something one-of-a-kind, and exquisite. You are a treasure to Him of the highest order. This is why it breaks His heart when we reject Him -- or even when we accept Him as savior, but treat Him primarily as a guide or teacher, as though we could somehow learn to become what He Himself is. For becoming God is the only way we ourselves could do what He asks of us: "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48, NIV). No, only Jesus Himself can fulfill in us what He asks of us.
So, why did He bother thinking each of us up? Part of the wonderful answer is that through us He means to transform the world, to restore every person to life and wholeness. The rest of the answer is even more profound, too deep and sweet for us to grasp yet. He made us to love Him and to be loved by Him forever. Only eternity will tell what unseen beauty He has planned for such a relationship. The more completely this relationship begins while we yet have not seen Him, the sweeter its fruit will be in eternity.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Matthew 6:19-21