Who Cares About Me Anyway?

Bravo, if you’re reading this. You’ve made a choice in search of ways to make your life a better one. Perhaps this will help motivate you and me on to victory over little things that we can manage. Think about the question, “Who cares about me anyway?”


Joyce Meyer’s speaks about reaching two different groups of people in her book, Look Great ~ Feel Great. I think that the characteristics of people from these two very different groups can show up as characteristics in one person during different stages of a life. Certainly most of us probably swing between these two extremes from time to time. Let's examine the groups and compare these to ourselves.



The first group of people are those who have simply given up on themselves. This attitude may not always show outwardly at first. People who have given up on themselves, consider themselves to be of little importance. They stop caring about others first and then they stop caring about themselves. They find no joy in anything and feel that it’s easier not to get involved than to expect anything. They come to this assumption because they do not want to be offended, feel emotional pain or experience disappointment ever again. They live their lives in defeat and depression. Sometimes outside circumstances may cause someone to feel this way, but often it’s something deep within a person rather than circumstances from the outside. When this attitude goes to the extreme, it shows up in the way someone takes care of them selves. Before these people even say a word, we notice that they have stopped taking care of themselves.



The other group of people, are just the opposite and are overachievers at life. They are always in a rush to get something accomplished. There is always a deadline and someone to please. They never learn to say no to anyone. Life is always about someone or something else. Investments are important and money is usually a driving force. The retirement fund has to be sufficient and so they keep working and never rest. They don’t like the slow down of vacation time and most often won’t even take one. They think of exercise and getting enough sleep as obstacles to getting ahead. Their lives are a roller coaster ride. We notice that these people don't take care of themselves either, they just have too much to do.

What is the reason that these two groups of poeple choose not to take care of themselves?  Joyce Meyer tells us they lack self-respect.



In many Christian circles, we often hear that our “flesh” is the biggest enemy that we have to defeat. If we are not careful, we will begin to get the idea that we are not important at all because we always associate "flesh" with "sin". That is far from God’s truth. Yes, "sin" is an enemy and our "flesh" is sometimes guilty, but the two words are not synonymous. Joyce makes the statement, “Looking nice is not a sin.” We really need to think about this... and perhaps readjust our understanding and attitude toward ourselves.



God doesn’t judge us based on our outward appearance. He looks deep within our hearts. So the first place we need to look is deep within us. We need to examine why we behave the way we do and base this examination on biblical truth. Have we bought the lie that we are not important? It is time to feed our spirit from the Word of God!  When we begin this journey of getting into God's Word, true revelation will come and we will begin to understand His great love toward us. We are not insignificant, He cares for everything about our existence.  When we begin to change the way we think of ourselves, then this will show up in our outer appearance.  The key to succes in this area is to begin by feeling great because God made us and He doesn't make junk!  If we begin to feel great emotionally and spiritually then this will show on the outside and we will look great!  (Notice I'm not talking about physically right now.  We need to start with our interior, the part that God sees!)


So who cares about me anyway? Well, my heavenly Father does and I should care about myself, too.

If you have any doubts about God’s love, here is a video graced with words from the Bible. Listen and believe it.  

(Please scroll down and turn off the playlist music before starting the video.)


Sound track of Father's Love Letter - Father Heart Communications Copyright 1999-2005  http://www.fathersloveletter.com/

These are the Bible scriptures noted in the video:

You may not know me, but I know everything about you (Psalm 139.1)
I know when you sit down and when you rise up (Psalm 139.2)
I am familiar with all your ways (Psalm 139.3)
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered (Matthew 10.29-31)
For you were made in my image (Genesis 1.27)
In me you live and move and have your being (Acts 17.28)
For you are my offspring (Acts 17.28)
I knew you even before you were conceived Jeremiah (1.4-5)
I chose you when I planned creation (Ephesians 1.11-12)
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book (Psalm 139.15-16)
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live (Acts 17.26)
You are fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139.14)
I knit you together in your mother’s womb (Psalm 139.13)
And brought you forth on the day you were born (Psalm 71.6)
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me (John 8.41-44)
I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love (1 John 4.16)
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you (1 John 3.1)
Simply because you are my child and I am your Father (1 John 3.1)
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could (Matthew 7.11)
For I am the perfect father (Matthew 5.48)
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand (James 1.17)
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs (Matthew 6.31-33)
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope (Jeremiah 29.11)
Because I love you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31.3)
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore… (Psalms 139.17-18)
And I rejoice over you with singing (Zephaniah 3.17)
I will never stop doing good to you (Jeremiah 32.40)
For you are my treasured possession (Exodus 19.5)
I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul Jeremiah (32.41)
And I want to show you great and marvellous things (Jeremiah 33.3)
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me (Deuteronomy 4.29)
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37.4)
For it is I who gave you those desires (Philippians 2.13)
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine (Ephesians 3.20)
For I am your greatest encourager (2 Thessalonians 2.16-17)
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles (2 Corinthians 1.3-4)
When you are broken-hearted, I am close to you (Psalm 34.18)
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart (Isaiah 40.11)
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes (Revelation 21.3-4)
And I’ll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth (Revelation 21.3-4)
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus (John 17.23)
For in Jesus, my love for you is revealed (John 17.26)
He is the exact representation of my being (Hebrews 1.3)
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you (Romans 8.31)
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins (2 Corinthians 5.18-19)
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled (2 Corinthians 5.18-19)
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you (1 John 4.10)
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love (Romans 8.31-32)
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me (1 John 2.23)
And nothing will ever separate you from my love again (Romans 8.38-39)
Come home and I’ll throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen (Luke 15.7)
I have always been Father, and will always be Father (Ephesians 3.14-15)
My question is “Will you be my child?” (John 1.12-13)
I am waiting for you (Luke 15.11-32)

Now, who cares about us anyway?


Today’s blog was inspired by Joyce Meyer’s ~ Look Great, Feel Great.

http://www.joycemeyer.org/ Joyce Meyer Ministries