You are important to God

by Noel Omukubi

We live in times of isolation where people no longer find it necessary to socialise. It is now normal for people to live next to each other for years and not know each other. Everyone for himself and God for us all is now the motto we live by. People are now lonelier than ever. In this mess that we have created, it is possible to feel like you are not important, that you are not significant, you have no value and that you do not matter to anyone. I have good news for you, you may not be important to man but you sure are important to God and he loves you so much.

People may ridicule you, laugh at you and judge you saying that you are not good enough, you are not beautiful enough, that you are not qualified to be amongst them. Some people with plainly tell you that you are ugly. Let me ask you a question, how can you be ugly if you are created in the image and likeness of God? You are God’s highest creation, actually, you are his latest model.

Psalms 8:4-8 says, "What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and you have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen; even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas."

Genesis 1:27- "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Genesis 9:6- ""Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man."

Child of God, stop feeling rejected and inferior. God holds you in very high esteem. You are so important to him and he loves you so much that he gave his only son to die for your sins so that you would not perish but have eternal life with him forever in heaven. How cool is that!