In worship this morning I began to sing, “Precious is the one.”

 

I knew it was the Lord sharing His heart with me. In a world where audiences are preferred, Jesus says, “Precious is the one.”

 

He is still the God who leaves the 99 for the 1.

 

Let us open our eyes to the one He has His gaze upon in any given moment.

 

He might set your dear eyes on the one in the grocery store desperately counting her money.

 

Perhaps, across the room your eyes are placed kindly by Jesus on a heart with a hidden need no one knows about but Him.

 

Precious is that one.

 

Sorrow has a way of singing in a heart unseen to the natural eyes but when Christ arrests your own eyes and turns your head to “see” then He is calling you to an assignment of the one.

 

Can you leave the crowds for one?

Can you go alone if you must as He directs you to a sorrowed bird?

 

Can the limelight of the stage be erased in front of you as God bids you, “Go to this one?”

 

Can the audience fade with all the applause so that you might meet the one grieved soul in despair?

 

Might you be willing to enter into the pits and prisons of the hidden hurts of mankind and watch God transform the one?

 

How precious is the ONE to the ONE who once knew us as the ONE.