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PEOPLE.    THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING INDIVIDUALS IN THIS WORLD. How many (actually) are 7.6 Billion? Can we even count that high, number them all?
Some we know and greet today  &   Some we will not even know their name.
Some we will meet in our future   &   Some will never come across our path.
Some we will know   &   Some we will never know.
Some…..Yes, for sure, we will know their names, who are their parents, where they work, and other life details    &    Some we will never know.
Some have birthdays this month of April, (Clementine, Katie, Skylar, Kayelee, Karine, Sofia, Lindsey) special girls, wonderful women, precious ones   &    Some will celebrate their day of birth during the eleven other months. 
Some are easy to know, easy to love, and easy to share life with & Some are…(well) some are just a little harder to love.

Truly, we are all created by a Holy God & HE knows the stars by name. God knows our names…Individually. God knows us. Are we known by Him…As His?
Truly we each have a day of physical birth.
Truly some have accepted and now enjoy a day of spiritual birth.
Each Person.    Each One Uniquely Known by God Himself, as His OR…Not.
Humanity comprises a vast number of people.    7.6 Billion by the latest census count. THAT’S A HUGE NUMBER!!!
How many people do you know?
How many names can you call out on a sidewalk IF all the people of the world were lined up and passed by for you to greet?
Would you be able to call out their name & some characteristic significant to each person?
Would you know them as God knew them, by their most unique distinction?
Humanity may number 7.6 Billion, BUT people are never just a number.  People are so many things within the world.  Consider…………………………..
Mothers.
Fathers.
Daughters.
Sons.
Sisters.
Brothers.
Cousins.
Children Adopted.
Children Biological.
Wives.
Husbands.
Co-Workers.
Teachers.
Students.
Peers.
Enemies.
Friends.
God’s Children Today……….OR………Not Yet. People Exist…..Everywhere we go,…..Everywhere we look,…..Everywhere we hike, and…..Everywhere we hide.
People Exist.
God began with two (people) and then God gave them a great task—–Multiply, & because they did (multiply), we (you and me) now exist.
But we do not exist alone.
We need one another.  Community, and we most definitely need God…YES!!!
Family. Friends.
Church Family. Co-Workers.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, walking toward home….
Ambassadors.  Testifiers.
Witnesses.
Preachers. Sharing God’s Word with a world full of people.
Teaching and Sharing with others, with those who do not yet know……..God.
***Saved.  God’s Child. HIS. 
OR
***Unsaved.  Not His.  Not God’s. 
No one is left out.
ALL PEOPLE ARE LOVED BY GOD.
GOD HAS NO FAVORITES. TRULY, NO FAVORITES. HE WANTS ALL TO COME TO KNOW HIM AS SAVIOR & LORD.
GOD CREATED ALL PEOPLE & GAVE ALL PEOPLE THE ONE CHARACTER QUALITY UNIQUE & SIMILAR AT THE SAME TIME—-TO KNOW HIM.  A INATE DESIRE TO KNOW GOD.
It exists within every person, every created person God formed.
So we walk through the days, the specific number of days God gave individually to each one of us, even before we lived the first one (Psalm 139:16).   So, if we have a day of our birth, then we most definitely, we also have a day of our death.  A certain number of days to live…AND then the eternity of the afterlife.
It is a certainty!
It is a promise of God!!!
No one is left out of this fact.
We are either a citizen of heaven….OR….We are Not.
The Bible is so clear about that.   So clear.  We don’t have to wonder where we stand with God.   He loves us.  He sent His Son to die for us.  He resurrected His Only Son to new life.  He provided the Only way to know Him…through BELIEF in Jesus Christ as Savior,  through Confession of our sins,  & through our acceptance that God sent His Son as a gift for each ONE of us, for humanity to know and live forever through HIM.
“By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him” (1 John 5: 9).
It is a fact.
All 7.6 Billion ones of us.
All who lived and died before us.   &
All who will be born and live after us.

God sent His Beloved Son for each ONE of us. God Did.
There is a beautiful melody sung by artist Tauren Wells called “Citizens of Heaven.”    On this single day, this Sunday and first day of the week, listen if your day affords you the opportunity.  And open God’s Word. See the truth found there.
The Bible is so clear.
“By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in Him, and he in God.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.    God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.”  (1 John 5:  13-17).
We May, on this day, see God today face-to-face, if today is our final day on earth.
And so, May we talk with Him today….May we each be ready to stand before God.
May we read the Bible, His Word, given to each one of us.
And May we each receive and become His today…..God’s……Yes, HIS CHILD.