Nehemiah 7:26-30: in context

This passage is part of a long register of the people who returned from exile to rebuild Jerusalem, listed by their home towns: the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight; the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; the men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two; and so on, town by town, number by number. It is a census of the returned remnant, each community counted and recorded.

A list of towns and numbers is easy to pass over, but it says something quiet and worth hearing: God's people are counted and recorded, down to the small towns and the small numbers. Forty-two men from Beth-azmaveth; a hundred and twenty-eight from Anathoth; these were not great multitudes, but they were counted, named by their towns, written into the record of those who returned. Each community that came back from exile mattered enough to be numbered, and even the smallest groups were not lost in the mass or overlooked. There is comfort in that for anyone who feels like one small, uncounted person among the multitudes. God keeps count of his people. The remnant that returned was not an anonymous crowd but a recorded roll, town by town, number by number, each community remembered. And the God who had the returning exiles counted and written down is the God who knows his people individually still, who does not lose the small ones in the crowd, who has, scripture says elsewhere, the very hairs of our heads numbered and our names written in his book. To be one of God's people is not to be a face in an anonymous mass but to be counted, known, recorded. The dry register of returnees is, at bottom, a testimony that God numbers his own, and that even the small town of forty-two was written down.

Do I feel like one small, uncounted person lost among the multitudes, and can I take comfort that God numbers his people down to the small towns and small numbers, that I am counted, known, and recorded by him, not lost in the crowd?