I hear songs that mention wondering if God painted a sunset or sunrise just for the singer, and I must admit that I’ve done the same at other times as well. Have you ever done that? Like when that convenient parking spot opens up… or when a specific prayer is answered. “God, did you do that just for me?”

The answer? Yes. And No.

Yes, because He cares about each of His children individually. “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee…Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling….because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high because he hath known my name.” (Psalms 91) The Bible is full of how God cares for His individual friends in intimate ways.

And yet, No. Because as much as He loves us individually, He’s so much bigger than that! Isn’t that one of the reasons He’s so amazing? At the same time that I’m admiring that sunrise or sunset, I’d bet that there’s another Christian somewhere nearby thinking that same thing. God, being God, can love each of His children individually across the world at the same time. We never have to feel lack because He is loving someone else when we are trying to have a relationship with Him. He is capable of working His plan out for our good in billions of ways at every moment of every day for thousands of years until it all comes to fruition. Because that’s how big He is; that’s how powerful and awesome He is.

So yes, He painted it for me. And yes, He painted it for you too. And even if nobody had seen it, like a flower in a field, He would have made it anyway, because that’s the kind of Person that He is. He makes beautiful things, regardless of who sees them.

“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.” (Matthew 5:44-45)

Have you told God how amazing He is today?