Apple of His Eye

Another Sunday morning. I was sitting on my porch at about 7:00 this morning, as I am making a habit of doing lately, just feeling the town I live in come awake. The song "Easy Like Sunday Morning" came to mind. Went to YouTube and listened to it. Right now the title says it all.
Sunday mornings can be very peaceful. People are not rushing to get to work, factories are not in full swing and the traffic on the main road is at a minimum.
Today the sun was raising hot and the wind was still. Peaceful Like Sunday Morning. What a blessing it is to sit and experience this.
I feel that time is never wasted watching the grass grow. Just being in the moment with Jesus is a wonderful thing. Just relaxing. Mind clear of the things of the day, troubles or the stuff I have to do. Just being.
Just being with Jesus is a wonderfully peaceful thing. Time is never wasted when Jesus is the center of it; the moment that is. We do not have the past or the future we only have the now, the moment, the heartbeat, the twinkle of the eye; that is all we have to live in. Yes we have eternity with Jesus to look forward to; we are not there yet, that is coming. We have our past experiences that can shape our now. We can have a dream which is a future reality that has not happened yet. Where we really live is in the moment.
For me the hardest thing is to fill that moment with the positive and even harder is allowing Jesus to be there filling the moment.
That got me to thinking about this verse of scripture:

KJV Zechariah 2:
8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

We as believers are the "apple of his eye". The Phrase Finder says this:
"Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye. Figuratively it is something, or more usually someone, cherished above others."
I am the apple of Jesus's eye. I, as a believer and one of His own, am cherished above all others. Opps! That sounds that I and I alone am cherished to the exclusion of all others. We know that the Body as a whole, a part of which you and I are, is cherished.
However I would like to take this to a totally personal level.
No one else can experience Jesus like I do. No one else has the relationship with Jesus that I do. How can they? We are all unigue, one of a kind in this world, created this way by Jesus. That is why I can say that I am cherished above all others because there is not another me.
Just think of it: you are indavidually created by Jesus and therefore you have a unique, exclusive relationship with Jesus. He interacts with you in a way that He interacts with no one else. Unique and exclusive.
Does that make me better than others? Why should it because Jesus acts with others in a way that is exclusive to them. They are the apple of his eye also.
The following scripture I believe expresses this best:

KJV Luke 12:
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

We are never forgotten of God. We are the apple of His eye, cherished and beloved.

KJV Psalm 46:
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Being still before God, knowing that He cherishes you will bring great strength and calm.
May Jesus find you today in the quiet reaches of your being and bring you great joy and comfort.