True Worth

"Faith never knows where it is being led,
but it loves and knows the One who is leading."
Oswald Chambers
True Worth

A well-known speaker started off his seminar

by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200,

he'd asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"
Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this."

He proceeded to crumple the dollar 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'd 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 $20.

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 can begin to feel as though we are worthless.
But no matter what has happened or what will happen,

you will never lose your value in God's eyes.

To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased,

you are still priceless to Him.
Psalm 17:8 states that God will keep us, "as the apple of His eye.”

The worth of our lives come not in what we do or who we are,

but by whose we are!
You are priceless – and bought with a great price. Don’t ever forget it!

Have a blessed day knowing that you
are the apple of His eye...

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