Does God really care about me?  Does He care about me; does He care what is going on in my life, in my world?  If these are questions you ask yourself, there is good news!

Yes, God does care about you! And He cares about you, specifically. He’s known you for a very long time even if you don’t know Him.

Psalm 139:13 says, “For You [God] formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.”

What does this mean? This Psalm tell us that God Himself created us and formed us even before we were born.  God is the One who put you together.  God the Creator knew you before your mother knew you! He designed you specifically for a purpose and there is only one of you. God, Himself, wanted you here on this earth at this time in history.

At the beginning of this same Psalm, verses 1-4 we find:

“O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thoughts from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it all.”

This is amazing! The God of the universe, the God who created all things knows even what you’re about to say! He knows where you are and what you’re doing.

Okay. So, what ARE you doing? Would you be proud of your behavior if God suddenly appeared in the flesh at a moment in time when you least expect it?  Are you embarrassed to realize that God does know everything you’re doing, at all times?  Does that make you angry? Afraid? Are you feeling shame?

The mere fact that you feel something when you think about this means that the Holy Spirit of God is at work in your life.  God wants the best for each of us, however, He is more interested in our spiritual life than our physical comfort.  So if you’re accustomed to praying for lots of blessings, plenty of money, popularity, or a big house, perhaps that’s why you feel your prayers aren’t answered.

The prayers God truly wants to answer in the affirmative are those prayers that affect our spirit.  Are you full of fear? Ask God to remove that fear and replace it with His peace. Are you full of anger? Ask God to show you why you’re angry and ask His help to remove the cause.  Are you full of self-doubt? Ask God to fill you with His presence and to give you confidence in His purpose for creating you.

Does God really care about me?  Yes, He does!! He wants to transform you from a fearful, angry, insecure, rebellious, and selfish person into a person who is full of trust in Him, a person full of His peace, a person who is confident, a humble and sincere person, a person who freely and joyfully gives to others.

We are spiritual beings and it is our spiritual life that means the most to God. When we die, our body stays here but our spirit goes somewhere. The Bible tells us there are only two options as to where our spirit goes.  Option number one is Heaven; option number two is Hell.  This isn’t a popular message these days, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is true. If we have a personal relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, we’ll spend eternity with Them in Heaven.  Without that personal relationship, our eternal destination is Hell.

God longs to have a genuine relationship with every single one of us.  He already knows you and He wants you to know Him!  He wants to bless you and fill you with peace!  God Himself longs to have a personal relationship with you.  Think about this a minute….  The God who created the universe, who designed it and spoke it into existence, the God who has existed forever in the past and will be forever in the future.  This God wants to be your best friend and be your source of strength.

There is only one way to have this kind of personal relationship with God and it was He who set up the way.  God Himself sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth to live among us, to teach us how to live a pure life, to show us how to build this friendship with God.  Jesus also did something else that is very important.  Jesus built a bridge from us to God but we have to cross that bridge in order to have this relationship with God.  That bridge is called the Cross.

You see, the reason we have to go through Jesus to have a relationship with God is because God’s standard is perfection.  Nothing gets into Heaven unless it meets that standard.  I don’t know about you, but I fall terribly short of that standard.  My sinful nature rears its ugly head and I feel envious at times, I lie sometimes (little white lies are still lies), and you don’t really need to know the rest.  Make your own list.  Do you think you can honestly say you are perfect?  Nope, didn’t think so!

None of us are perfect and God knew this when He created us.  And He still wants a relationship with us, forever.  Hard to understand, isn’t it? This is why Jesus is so important. Jesus, being the Son of God, was the only person to ever live who met this standard of perfection.  More than this, He died in our place on the cross. Jesus, when He was crucified on the Cross, took upon Himself all the sins that were committed in the past as well as those that would be committed in the future.  And He took the punishment from God for those sins–and Jesus did this on our behalf. Jesus deserved none of the punishment because He was perfect.  We’re the ones who deserve the punishment for our sins.

Since those sins have been paid for by Jesus, we have an opportunity to enter Heaven if we accept what Jesus did on the Cross and make it personal.  What I mean is, we must transfer our trust from ourselves to what Jesus did.  If we trust in our own good works to get us into Heaven, we’ll not get there because we sin.  If we trust in Jesus Christ, believe in Him as the Son of God, believe that God raised Jesus from the dead, then we will enter Heaven when we die.

Romans 10:8-11 says it better than I can:

“But what does it say? ‘The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’–that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.”

Yes, God does care about you and He cares very much where you spend eternity. He prefers that you spend it with Him in Heaven.  But, God leaves that choice to us.  It’s our choice.  We can choose eternal life in Heaven or we can choose eternal life in Hell.

If you want to spend eternity in Heaven, it is very simple.  Do what Romans 10:8-11 said to do (written above).  Believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, and confess both of these things with your mouth.  Tell someone else.

If you want some help with this, here’s a short prayer to pray.  If you want to tell me that you prayed it, please head for the contact us page.  But tell someone special and share this page with them, too.

Here’s the prayer:  “Father God, I come to You in Jesus’ Name.  I’m a sinner and I’m sorry for my sins and I turn away from them. I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross to pay for my sins. I believe in Jesus, that He is your Son and that You raised Him from the dead.  Jesus, please be my Lord and Savior. Forgive me for all my sins, past, present, and future.  God, thank you for hearing my prayer and for answering it. I want to have a relationship with You and to spend eternity in Heaven.”

If you prayed that sincerely, then God has forgiven you and Jesus Christ is now your Lord. Yes, God does care about you!

If you have a Bible, I encourage you to read the Book of John in the New Testament.  It will introduce you to God and to Jesus so you can get to know them better.  This is a good starting point.  Talk to God and Jesus every day and listen to them.  Yes, they will talk to you but you’ll need to learn to listen.  This is called prayer.  God cares about even the little things in our lives, so feel free to discuss any “petty” problems with Him.  He’ll be delighted!  And you’ll be changed little by little into the kind of person you really want to be, deep down.

God bless you and I hope to hear from you!

Dottie