I matter

[glowea]

Here is a story Peter told a while back at the beginning of preaching through Genesis.  He had taken his son searching for fossils and when he got all excited about having found one, he said:

Hey, Jon, just think! About 80 million

years ago, there was a warm, shallow ocean

right in this spot. Giant sea creatures swam

in that ocean above this spot, and dinosaurs

walked on the beach to the west of this

spot. God made it all, and then He made

this clam on the bottom of that sea. He

buried it here in the mud, and the mud

turned to rock. It was here when the

dinosaurs became extinct and the

mountains pushed up. It was here when

God made Adam and Eve; it was here

when Jesus walked the earth; it was here

while kingdoms rose and kingdoms fell.

And when God buried it here in this spot,

do you know what He was thinking about?

He was thinking about you . . . and the day

you would ride your bike down the bike

path, climb this hill, find this clam, pick it

up, and say, “Wow!” You see, Jon, you

must matter to Him a lot.

And it made me cry a bit to see it put like that, how much he delights in me and setting things up, from the beginning of time, just to make me smile.