One Matters.

All at once my friend who is dying of cancer, a leader of a country, the wife of my childhood pastor whose husband died today, a homeless woman standing on a corner, a young woman sold into sex trafficking, the ups man, Bono, you, Lebron, me and the other 7.5 billion fellow humans on the face of the earth are all living in various forms and fashions. For some the day is bitter and death like. For others light hearted and peaceable. And each One Matters.

I am sitting in the Translation Room, (my office at the Korean Church) looking out my window. The rain is in between drops. I am watching a little chipmunk scurry through the mulch. As far as I know, I'm the only person who sees the little guy. As I consider my seemingly random list above of fellow humans, I begin to wonder..."How can God possibly see it all?" It is beyond my mental capacity to enter into pondering the power of God that allows Him to see all, know all. But I want to think about it. His power is staggering. His love, more staggering. What is man that He is even mindful of us? He IS mindful of us to the point of the shedding of blood. That is mindful. That is "heartful".

He is locked in on all the ONES. Each of the 7.5 billion is a one. And the life, character and love of God demonstrate that one matters. In the bible book of Luke, chapter 15, Jesus tells three stories about things that are lost. A story about a sheep, a story about a coin and a story about a son. There were 100 sheep and ONE was lost. The shepherd goes after and finds the one. There were 10 coins and ONE was lost. The woman lights up the room and sweeps and sweeps until she finds the one. There are 2 sons and ONE chose to go away from fatherly, family love to live his own, selfish life. Later the desperate son returns home and the father sees him from a long way off, runs to him, throws his arms around him, pulls him close and kisses him. Lost found by Love. Lost pulled close by Love.

And there is other worldly rejoicing in the finding. Don't miss that.

Lost ones are pursued by the Father and...... there are lots of different kinds of lost. There's lost having never been once found and there's lost my way having already been found before. Whatever the lost, One matters to the Father.

1 out of 100.

1 out of 10.

1 out of 2.

1 out of 7.5 billion

Regardless of the quantity of number, the quality of the Father's love says ONE MATTERS. That seems really intimate when you consider the 7.5 billion number. And it's crazy intimate when you're the ONE.

Maybe you're lost, having never been found. Perhaps you will be found today.

Maybe you're lost, having been found before. Perhaps that part of you will be found again today.

Hey little chipmunk. I see you. I see you suffering man. I see you world leader. I see you grieving woman. I see you hungry woman. I see you scared girl. I see you Brown. I see you singer. I see you king James. I see you Damon. He sees you. All at once, He sees the 7.5 billion and He sees you.

Be seen, lost things.

Be seen, lost one.

Be seen. One matters.

Found you.

There's more.