Whats your value?

We have all heard the phrase "God doesn't make junk."  I have heard many people quote this, but the truth is many of us think we are just a little better than junk, that we have little value to others, and especially to God.  Why does this happen?  IT happens to different people for different reasons but it is a major reason why many people are ineffective for the kingdom of God.  Many of us feel less value than someone else such as their pastor, or a national or international leader.  Just because someone is popular in the worlds eyes does not make you more valuable to God.  God has no favorites and views us all the same.  We are valuable no matter what the world says, no matter what our emotions tell us or our feelings.  He made us for a reason and has given us desires to do certain things for a reason.

As an example, I have a friend that as a young man was molested and raped and because a few others saw him as a person of little to no value, he also began to listen to those lies that told him that he was a low class person.  He believed that God really doesn't make junk, but life and others and told him that he was not worth much more than junk.  One day God broke in and changed all that.  He heard a pastor teaching about purity and realized that the reason he had felt inferior was because of others actions and that it was all based on a lie.  That moment revolutionized his life and he is now happy and ready to allow God to create a new person and value in him so that he can fulfill the purpose and call God has on his life, no matter what that looks like.

If you are reading this and you are feeling inferior to others or feel like you have little to no value to anyone, especially God, then you believe a lie.  I challenge you to ask Jesus to show you your value, not in the eyes of the world but in His eyes.  That is where true value lies.

Psalm 8  (NLT)

 

1O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

Your glory is higher than the heavens.

2You have taught children and infants

to tell of your strength,

silencing your enemies

and all who oppose you.

3When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—

the moon and the stars you set in place—

4what are mere mortals that you should think about them,

human beings that you should care for them?

5Yet you made them only a little lower than God

and crowned them with glory and honor.

6You gave them charge of everything you made,

putting all things under their authority—

7the flocks and the herds

and all the wild animals,

8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,

and everything that swims the ocean currents.

9O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!