Day 39 - 90 Days in Proverbs – Apple of His Eye
Proverbs 7:1-2 [KJV] 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Recall that the term “apple of my eye” is used to refer to something or someone that one cherishes above all others. While Proverbs 7:1-2 reminds me to make God’s law and commands the apple of my eye, it makes me ask, “Who, then, is the apple of God’s eye?”
King David boldly asked to be the apple of God’s eye. In Psalm 17:8 [NIV] he says, Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Jacob was the apple of God’s eye. We read in Deuteronomy 32:9-10 [NIV] 9 For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. 10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
God took care of Jacob just as someone cares for another who is precious above all others.
But it isn’t only David or Jacob that God holds as precious to Him. An angel, sent from God, explained this to Zechariah in Zechariah 2:8 [ESV] 8 For thus said the LORD of hosts, after His glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
All people called by His name are precious to and cherished by Him. It applied to the nation of Israel in the Old Testament times and it applies to the Ecclesia – to those who are God’s people today.
These four verses are the only four that include references to the apple of anyone’s eye. But know that being the apple of someone’s eye means that you are precious above all others to that person. We do find many additional scriptural reverences to what is precious or of great value to our Father God.
For example: the blood of Jesus. 1 Peter 1:19 [NIV] but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. As precious as the blood of Jesus is to God, He directed that it be spent on you and me. That is because we are also precious to Him. God would not have spent something of such great value on you, sweet sister, if you were not also of great value to Him.
Another thing that is precious to God is our deaths - whether we are referring to that death to sin at baptism or death that occurs at the conclusion of this human life. Both are precious to God. Psalm, 116:15 [NIV] Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his faithful servants.
There are billions of things that are most precious to God – that is: all the people who live now, who lived and died in the past and who will yet live in the future. Because the precious blood of the Perfect Lamb was shed for all of us, we know that the Father values every one of us.
God aks us to make Him and to make His law the apple of our eyes. In doing so, He is only asking us to reciprocate the feelings that He had for us first. I am so very thankful that God loves and protects me as the apple of His eye. How wonderful to know that we are precious to God.
Prayer — Father God, Thank You for Your love and mercy – for holding me as the apple of Your eye. You spent the precious blood of Jesus on me. I will hold You and Jesus, Your laws and Your word as precious, special gifts to be treated with great respect and care. Lord, help me so to do. In Jesus’ name I ask. Amen.
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