This post was originally published on Waiting for Baby Bird. I’ve republished it here with her permission.
I saw six in the bathroom sink. I found two on my sweater and four in my hair brush. This leaves me with 137,817 strands of hair left on my head. Okay, so maybe I don’t know how many I am sportin’ around but God does.
“But the very hairs on your head are all numbered.” ~Matthew 10:30
Every time I stop, I mean actually stop, and think about this verse, I get tears in my eyes. God is carefully watching over me and loves me so intimately that every single strand of hair on my head is counted. I want you to think about the person you love the most…the one who you would lay your life down for. Do you know how many hairs are on their head? Do you even care?
Most of us don’t have the time or the desire to count the hairs on the head of someone else (or on our own for that matter). I love my husband intimately and more than any other person on this earth, but I do not have the hairs on his head counted. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be for him to try to count mine–I lose so many throughout the day that he would have to count, recount, start over, and subtract every couple of hours because I’m constantly losing strands here and there. Yet, God takes the time and even has the desire to know the smallest details of our lives, right down to how many are left and how many are growing back. Nothing gets past Him.
When Jesus said in Matthew 10:30, “But the very hairs on your head are numbered”, He wanted you and I to know that He is very interested in us, and has an intimate knowledge that no one else knows or can fathom. You may feel forgotten but you are not. You may feel like your problems are overlooked, but they are not. God is for you. He hears your heart cry for a baby. He knows the pain you have in your body, the financial stress that keeps you up at night, and the hurts you keep hidden in your heart. He watches and catches as every tear falls down your cheek. It’s amazing to know that we are not just a face in the crowd or a number waiting for our turn in line. We are His very own.
Matthew 10:30 is proof that you are so valuable to Him and He is so absorbed in you. He is the Almighty, but also your Poppa God who has all the time for you, as if no one else mattered or existed. He desires and waits for you to approach Him and crawl up in His lap and rest in His love. So, despite the mess you might feel like you are in, know that God is faithful, merciful, and gracious. He is for you and wants to meet your every need and make your life B-E-A-utiful!
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