Little Things

"This song is dedicated to every kid who got picked last in gym class...to every kid who never had a date to no school dance...to everyone who's ever been called a freak. THIS IS FOR YOU!"

This is the opening to a song by Good Charlotte that was very popular when I was a teenager. It really hit home with a lot of kids because how many of us felt this way? Like a reject or a loser? I know I sure did. That song came back to me this evening and I thought about the intro and how that can apply to us as Christians too. Christ calls out to all of us who have ever felt like trash, those of us who aren't anything special and don't know where to turn with all of the pain and ugliness that comes at us in the world. I think of Him on the cross with His arms outstretched, in agony and pain, and He could be looking right at me, saying, "THIS IS FOR YOU!!" Because it truly was. So instead of continuing in that self-pity and feeling like a loser and a reject, let's look at what words of truth Christ left with us.

Eph 2:19-22 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

1Pe 2:9-10 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

1Pe 2:24-25 Who his own self (the SON OF GOD!) bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Psa 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

So, to any of you out there who were picked last in gym class; to those of you who never had a date; to those of you who were ever called a freak, or ugly or stupid or worthless...THIS IS FOR YOU, so listen up!

1. God made you and He doesn't make mistakes. "marvellous are thy works"

2. God thought that your worth was so much that he sacrificed his only Son, king of the whole world, so that you might have eternal life with Him. "By whose stripes ye were healed"

3. God has chosed you to take on His name and show His glory to the world. "ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood..."

4. AND God has made you part of an eternal family built on faith "ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints"

That is the truth of what Christ has done for you and for me!