Quick story. Two brothers are equally different and opposite. One brother is making a stew and the other is coming back from hunting. The brother coming back from hunting is starving, smells the stew and immediately thinks he's going to die if he doesn't eat. The brother who made the soup is extremely clever and in the heat of the moment offers the meal for the others inheritance.
Stupid right?
Who would give up their inheritance for something as simple or temporary as a meal? Who would want to insult themselves and sell themselves so short?
Funny how I see it as more of a common practice these days. People who sell themselves short. Sad, how people can forget or not even know their own worth. Even sadder are those who have been labeled "worthless," who have little idea of their real potential and worth.
If you found a dime in your pocket, you know from experience that that dime is worth ten cents, or 10% of a dollar. You can't pass the dime of for $50 dollars because people know what the value of a dime is worth. I highly doubt you'd be able to get away with using it to buy and pay for a car.
And yet, in 1965 the U.S. treasury department released (by accident) a dime made of real silver. I'm pretty sure that normal dimes are made from copper and nickle. But these handful of dimes are special. If you happen to find one, you'd soon find out that what was meant to be 10 cents, something insignificant, is actually worth about 9,000 dollars! Somebody do that math on that and get back to me about the percentage increase that is.
I cannot help but think of certain people who have accepted their own labels that society, people or even those close to them have given them. How many people have been labeled worthless, hopeless or lost cause? How many people have either listened to statements or deemed themselves less than, or not worth it.
I use the dime as an example. But there are those who need to know what their real value is and where it comes from. Your value never has and never will and never should come from this Earth or anyone on it.
Serious collectors from tea sets to comic books know one important truth. The rarer and unique something is, the more special and valuable it is. Now this might sound cliche or even trite but, if you were to take inventory of every person that ever lived from now until forever. You'd be the only one. You'd be the rarest, most valuable, single edition, extremely rare one of a kind, you.
The Bible says, that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You might be thinking, well that's great. So what? What does any of that have to do with my worth? If you thought about the most important thing in your life, would you try and save it if your house was on fire? Of course you would! You might put yourself in harms way for that one thing or one person.
You are so valuable to God that you cannot be measured. He would put his son, whom he was most pleased with to horrible, painful death for you. Because you are too valuable to him.
There are some out there who I know are selling themselves short. They get caught up the world around them. Their circumstances or even their break ups that they have no idea what their value and real worth is. If God was on this physical plain or on the other side of your computer, he'd tell you. Or maybe he's using me to tell you.
The point is, if you're reading this, you either thought, I'll humor Jon and check out what he wrote... OR, maybe God's trying to remind you how precious and beautiful you are. I believe that if you're reading this, it is not coincidental.
God calls us (the sinner) the cornerstone or crown Jewel of all creation.
There is no mistake big enough. No screw up large enough. Not even the worst of your dirty little secrets to stop you from God Love.
I pray tonight, that at the least, you never sell yourself short.
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