OUR VALUE

I was reading Joyce Meyer's book "Approval Addiction" the other day and found this to be a wonderful picture of our worth in Christ. Here is what she had to say:




A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a fifty-dollar bill. In the room of two hundred, he asked, "Who would like this fifty-dollar bill?" Hands started going up. He siad, "I am going to give it to one of you, but first let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the bill up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty.
"Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth fifty dollars."
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God's eyes. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, we are still priceless to HIM.

Even with all His foreknowledge of our weaknesses and the mistakes we would make, He still chose us on purpose and brought us into a relationship with Himself through Christ.

So...we can do whatever we want?! Of course not...Read Romans chapter 6...what shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means!!

For those of us who have made mistakes in the past (which is all of us!) I find it very encouraging that He still chose us and still loves us!!