November 7, 2022
God Knows You
This week in Sunday School, our children are focusing on “God Speaks.” One of the wonder truths in our curriculum is basically that God knows you! God knows every person, He knit them together (No one is an accident!), He knows everything about their hearts, minds, and souls (Every single hair is numbered!), and He loves each of us just as we are (All of God’s Creation is beautiful!).
This love is perfect and unconditional.
One of the stories that hit my heart as a child was that of a little Irish girl who prayed every day for blue eyes. Her family had blue eyes and she wanted lovely blue eyes! She considered her brown eyes dull and plain. This story caught my 5-year-old heart because I had blue eyes and loved the way God made me, but I thought the most beautiful eyes in the world were those that looked like warm chocolate drops – honey brown. Though I’d never prayed for different eyes, hair, or other features, I understood thinking that a feature of my body was plain and thinking someone else had the most beautiful.
Every night she would pray for blue eyes and when she looked in the mirror she would be sad because she still had brown eyes. Her mother told her that God had a plan for her lovely brown eyes. One day the girl grew up. She decided to be a missionary and was sent to India.
The people of India distrusted the white-skinned, blue-and-green eyed people who spoke of only one God who loved. The unknowns often scare people. The young woman’s missionary group wanted to enter a temple in India to find out if the horrible stories of little girls being sold to the temples was true. But they were never allowed in; even when they tried to disguise themselves – always their bright blue or green eyes gave them away as strangers.
But this young missionary had brown eyes! She dyed her skin with coffee, dyed her hair to be dark brown, and dressed as the local people. They let her into the temple! Her brown eyes did the trick! There she prayed “thank you, God, for making my beautiful brown eyes!”
This young woman was Amy Carmichael, later known by the temple slave girls as “Amma” or Mother. Her lifelong ministry, the rescue of thousands of young girls, would never have been possible had she had blue eyes! God knew what plans he had for her.
Just as God knew Amy and the plans He had for her, He knows the plans He has for you, for me.
I am a planner; I always have a range of plans for the day, the week, the year, twenty years, etc, but I’ve learned that God knows me better than I know myself and though I may make and try to follow my plans, I always have to leave room for God to change them!
Just a wonderful thought to think upon this week ~ God knows you. God loves you! What does it take from you? You just have to choose to follow Him. (My Daddy used to say, “and that’s the simple to confound the wise.”)
Thank you for Reading!
Type at you later!
~Nancy Tart