You

Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

You are you. You are unique. No one has the same genes, upbringing, education, career, family history, and so on. You are important to God. So important that Jesus, His Son, was also born and died for you.

Perhaps you don't realize how important your life is in the eyes of God. Perhaps you don't believe in God or you feel like God is far away. This may be because you never notice anything of God. You notice so little of God that you sometimes, or even regularly, wonder if God even exists. The seeming total absence of God can even completely convince people that there is no God.

God is not absent. The fact that He is not visible doesn't mean He doesn't exist. Just as the invisibility of electricity or radiation doesn't mean they don't exist. Your reaction to this might be: yes, but we notice the effects of electricity and radiation. Electricity keeps my lights on and allows me to use my PC, TV, and other devices. My constant internet connection proves the presence of radiation. But what effect does the existence of the invisible God have?

How do you perceive God's existence? In everything you perceive with your senses. What you feel, smell, taste, see, and hear. The sun, the moon, the stars, the flora, the fauna, the earth, the sea, the air, the laws of nature, everything. The functioning of the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, the nervous system, the immune system, and all other mechanisms in every body, down to the microscopic, are in His hand. God is also present in what you feel inside: joy, courage, love, peace, but also sadness, fear, anger, and the feelings of shame, remorse, and guilt for a wrong action. Every fraction of time, creation in all its fullness is sustained by God. However, God is not equal to creation. He transcends his creation and continually brings it forth from his infinite Being.

You are important to God. You may be one person out of approximately 7.5 billion people on a small planet orbiting one of the 500 billion stars in one of the 100 billion galaxies. But your size does not determine your importance. Just as someone twice as heavy or twice as tall is not twice as important, a star or galaxy a trillion times as large is not a trillion times as important. You can marvel at the enormous size of the universe. That wonder resides in your mind. The universe therefore derives the relevance of its enormous dimensions from your mind and your imagination. Without humanity, no one would be able to marvel at the universe, and the size of the universe would mean nothing to anyone.

Humans are made in God's image and likeness. Humans give meaning to everything in creation. This makes humanity so important to God that He is willing to sacrifice everything for humanity. Humans are, in a sense, miniatures of God Himself. That's why God could come to earth as a Man and live among us, experiencing the same things as we do, with feelings He already knew as God, but which He now shared with us as a Man. As God who became Man, He wants to enter into a relationship with all people. And everyone who enters into this relationship with Him will share eternity with Him. Because He became Man, He can share with every person the life He possessed in eternity as God. This demonstrates that He places an enormous value on every person. Including you.