Individualized

I am not totally sure if anyone read this blog anymore. I highly doubt that they do, so this as become almost a personal journal site for me. Hahah! I don't mind. Anyway, today I went out for a walk. It was one of my goals to spend more time meditating and reading scriptures and such in order to understand some spiritual truths and to come closer to Jesus Christ. As I walked out in the warm sun, (thank goodness its warm in Utah.) I came across very randomly an idea.

I was taking in the general beauty of the neighborhood and thinking to myself of the fondness that I had for this place. And that was when a thought came to me that went something like this: God the Father knew that one day there would be a little boy who would be born in Price, and grow up in Heber, become very fond on of the place and so he wanted to make everything surrounding him beautiful because he likes to see this little boy happy. And that's me! And I thought, that can't be right. Why would God make Heber just for me? I don't own it. And that is when the other thought came, he did it for everyone. But he did it for me.

Here's a good analogy to this idea. A parent loves their child. So they surround that child with good things. Nice clothes, colorful room, fun toys and shows to watch and good food to eat. Good surroundings, or in other words, a good home to live in. Now, when a second child is born to that same parent they do the same thing for that child, right? of course! But they do it for both of them. But they do it for their child. Not just children. He does it for both children. So, for the same reason, PART of the reason God made Heber was for me. Just like how part of him making Heber was for my siblings and for my friends, each one of them that lived there.

How grateful I am that we have an Individualized God. Not a collective God. Does it not make sense, that a perfect, omniscient God would want EACH child to have something good around them? Would it not make sense that wherever YOU are, he made, partially for you.

And so that leads to the final part. How often do we take the nature around us lightly. We are too busy with our phones or our ipads or our computers, or our thoughts (I'm guilty, I admit it.) but today, I noticed. I noticed that the things I was looking at, the trees, the clouds, the grass, the warmth of the sun, it was placed there, partially because God loves me. And the other parts of why he did it is because he loves everyone else experiencing it. He loves the human race. I know and testify that he is an individualized God. Meaning that we, each of us, are like only children to him. I really believe that. That doesn't mean we ARE only children. It means he gives the same undivided attention to us. And because he is God he has the capacity to do that for each of us.

I love him.

Those are my thoughts today. Now go outside and drink it in! :D