Listen here, and consider this.
There are several things Christians generally believe, in accordance to Scriptures:
God is all knowing--so much so, that He even knows us before we are born (Jeremiah 1:5).
Out of billions of people on Earth, God can hear our prayers uniquely and is sovereign to answer them specifically (Isaiah 38:5; Daniel 10:12).
Jesus is the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world (Revelation 13:8).
For whoever becomes a follower of Christ, there is rejoicing for you personally as God saves you, intimately (Luke 15:7).
He knows who will be saved (Romans 8:29)
Hebrews 12:2 says, "looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God."
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Now, for the thought that all of this gives me, to ponder. When Jesus went to the cross and suffered there--among the many innumerable things that must be in the immeasurable "mind of God'--you were on His mind specifically. As He suffered there, and endured the shame, you (your name here), and I, were there, uniquely and personally. Not just as an inseparable ether of past and future believers, or masses of indistinguishable faces who may or may not believe some day, but you--your face before him, and you by name, your person uniquely, were on His mind.
"See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are." -1 John 3:1a
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