The One of Billions

Did you know that you’re the one—the one God loves as if you’re the only one, the special one, His very own? You are the one. And so are every one of us.

February’s Awakening, Day 2

God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us to love.

 —Augustine of Hippo 

The love of God is like the Amazon River flowing down to water one daisy.

 —Author Unknown

Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible.

 —Author Unknown

Painting and sculpture will lose their appeal for the soul turned to that divine love which opened its arms upon the cross to welcome us.

 —Michelangelo 

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:16–17 NIV

“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish. Matthew 18:12–14 NIV 

            Contemplate, if you will, the total number of people that will ever have been alive on this earth throughout all of history and the future to come. That means every individual who has lived and died and every individual yet to live and die. The number is somewhere in the billions as the current population living on this earth is well over seven billion. Now ponder the thought that God intimately knows each of us by name and even can number the hairs on our heads, and knows each thought and each thought yet to come. It’s incomprehensible. What’s even more astounding is the fact that each one of us, one of billions, is uniquely precious to Him and His love for you, the one, knows no bounds. Infinite and unfathomable and unconditional love from our Creator poured out just for you, the one, as if you were the only one—yet He still does that for all the billions of other ones too. That’s God’s amazing love. Amazing indeed.