To him, you're everything ...
To him, you're everything ...
With a lovely doggies as the background, the words on a poster in the vet clinic reads, "To you, he's a dog; to him, you're everything."
Reading these words each time I bring my pet(s) to visit the vet never fail to remind me about my responsibility as a pet owner. It reminded me afresh about how frail pets can be and how they depend solely on us, their pet owners to provide for them in their entire life, and to shower them with care and love. Sometimes, the words bring a shame and guilt within me as I recall how little time I've spent with my pets in the busyness of life.
As I ponder about these words, it rings true in our relationship with God too. Perhaps to many of us, God is just God - He's just "one" of the many commitments we have in our lives. Yet for the Lord Himself, each one of us is everything to Him - despite the fact that we are all like grains of sand in this universal ... despite the fact that God is busy enough to attend to thousands or even millions of matters on hand everyday that is happening around the globe.
Unlike our pets, God doesn't have to depend on us for happiness, care or love - in fact, He's the One who showers all that we need to us. Yet it's amazing that to us, He's God; to Him, we are everything.
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
With a lovely doggies as the background, the words on a poster in the vet clinic reads, "To you, he's a dog; to him, you're everything."
Reading these words each time I bring my pet(s) to visit the vet never fail to remind me about my responsibility as a pet owner. It reminded me afresh about how frail pets can be and how they depend solely on us, their pet owners to provide for them in their entire life, and to shower them with care and love. Sometimes, the words bring a shame and guilt within me as I recall how little time I've spent with my pets in the busyness of life.
As I ponder about these words, it rings true in our relationship with God too. Perhaps to many of us, God is just God - He's just "one" of the many commitments we have in our lives. Yet for the Lord Himself, each one of us is everything to Him - despite the fact that we are all like grains of sand in this universal ... despite the fact that God is busy enough to attend to thousands or even millions of matters on hand everyday that is happening around the globe.
Unlike our pets, God doesn't have to depend on us for happiness, care or love - in fact, He's the One who showers all that we need to us. Yet it's amazing that to us, He's God; to Him, we are everything.
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
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