Something good to remember when reading God’s Word is that while God is the author, he used men to write the words. They were led by the Spirit of God to write, but they were men like all of us, who lived in a fallen world and endured problems and hardships and difficulties like we all do. As such, they had questions like the rest of us. In His infinite wisdom, God often had them include those questions to help us understand they lived in the same sinful world in which we find ourselves living.

Psalm 8:3–4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, ⁴ what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?

This observation has been made by believers and non-believers alike. Man is nothing more than a tiny speck in the universe. Could we be any more insignificant? And believers naturally wonder how the one in control of everything could possible care about us.

The nice thing about Scripture is that it does more than posit questions. It gives us the answers that we need. It may not give us all the answers we want, but it gives us the answers we need. What is man?

1 John 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

The one who created us all loves us, in spite of our sin and disobedience. He wants to restore all people to a place in His family. He made it possible for us to be His restored and redeemed children by coming down here Himself to pay the penalty our sins demanded. He took our place, paid our price, conquered death and gives that to anyone who would believe in Him. That is lavishing love indeed!

Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

By virtue of faith in Jesus, you can be assured that you are God’s dearly loved child. He is with you now, and you will be with Him forever.