Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Matter.
Pondering the definition of the word brought me to think about what matters in life. This poses the question, what then is important?
And that led me to the ask: What matters to God? What is of importance to Him?
Every mile of our journeys matter to Him. “I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.” (Psalm 32:8, NASB)
Our tears matter to God. “You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?” (Psalm 56:8, NASB)
Our identity matters to Him. “Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.” (1 John 3:2, NASB)
Stopping for a minute to think further, one more thought made its way to the forefront. If our journeys, our tears, and our identities matter to God, then there is one more critical thing that matters –
Our roots matter to Him. “Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.” (Colossians 2:6-7, NASB)
Our lives, tears, and identities matter to God.
May our roots grow deeply in His Word,
so we will be firm in our faith.
Our roots matter.
