Tag: Set your heart on him

5. “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people

Job 7:17  What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, visit him every morning and test him every moment?

Psalms 8:4   what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

  Psalms 144:3   O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

Isaiah 40:17     All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Luke 1:68   “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people

When you stop to think deeply about God these references ask a very important question.  “What is man that You are mindful of him?”  Think about how many things you have given your heart to do and make something.  You may have even gone to school to become educated so that you were able to build out your project or life vocation.  Now think back and try to remember some of the stuff you gave great thought, time, and effort into completion.  More than likely you have forgotten more things that you remembered.  The point is that we can give all of our attention and effort to something and at the moment it is very important but over time we lose interest or have moved on to something else.

God, our Creator, awesome in power created us and has steadfast love toward us.  He has not forgotten or disregarded His creation.  He loves His creation so much that He gave His only Son to redeem us.  If we had created something and it did not turn out as we had hoped we more than likely would scrap it and start over.  God chose to redeem fallen mankind.  “What is man that you are mindful of him?”  This is the God of all there is, who created everything out of the vapor of His breath.  He has chosen to be steadfast toward mankind in holiness, grace, mercy, and love.  He chose to make a way for salvation and being right (without sin) in His eyes.  “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whosoever might believe in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”  We only have to look to Jesus Christ and know the love the Heavenly Father has for mankind.  In this redemptive love, we find either salvation or rejection, an eternity in heaven or eternity in hell, forgiveness or judgment.  It is no small thing God has done to redeem mankind.  What is man that you are mindful of him, set Your heart on him, regard him, think about him, care for him, make so much of him”?????

Mindful of man

“to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever; the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;  the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever”

 

Psalms 8:3
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,  what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalms 144:3
O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?

2 Chronicles 6:18
“But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!

Job 7:17
What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,

Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

1 Peter 2:12
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Romans 1:20
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

David brings out a great thought when looking at creation, and how the sun, moon, stars, and heaven are set in place he says in comparison: “What is man that you are mindful of him?”  We don’t normally think down these lines do we?  Is it possible we approach it as somewhat of an entitlement to have God be mindful of us. Do we look at the heavens and all that is outside of earth and stand in awe of majesty and power of the creator?  This same one and only God has not only created all there is but has promised eternal life to those who believe/trust in the redemptive work of His son on the cross, repent from their past ways and from that moment on live to humbly serve, honor and obey Him.  His creation and promises ought to be always on our mind with thanksgiving and praise.