June 15: A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY

Like many of you, I make my regular visits to the local trash compactor site; to dispose of trash and garbage and leave stuff to be recycled. I miss something from the Landfill where we last lived. A section of that Landfill was designated: “Too Good To Throw Away”. There was always a variety of stuff there. Things that people didn’t like anymore or didn’t find useful were abandoned on this spot. Stuff that became worthless in the owner’s eyes but in someone else’s eyes was “too good to throw away” could be found there. Some people would just wait out there to see what was dumped. As I mused over this it occurred to me that God finds us on the “too good to throw away” part of life.
Consider: many are abandoned by spouse, parents, children, employer and the like who got the best we had to offer and then put us aside. Genesis 2:7 says “the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”. Made in the image of God, we were in the ideal location to have a relationship with God. But we rebelled and listened to the appeal of Satan and went to follow him. He used us and tossed us aside after we were miserable.
But God saw that we were “too good to throw away.” David asks “Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high, who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth? He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap.” (Psalm 113:5-7)
So many people are considered worthless and disposable by other humans but God sees us through different eyes. “though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.” (Psalm 27:10)
Remember: the dearest person to you in this world may turn on you but the Lord will find you in your abandoned state and save you for future fellowship. You are precious in His sight!

“O Merciful God, it comes as a sweet word of encouragement to know from
the Bible that we are still precious in Your sight. Amen”