A very personal God

YOUR VALUE

not everything is as it seems, a road to a radar station not an observatory.

Lamentations 4 “How the gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street. The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter’s hands. Even the jackal bear the breast and nurse their cubs; but the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness. The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg for food, no one lays it out before them. The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie on piles of trash. The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her. Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance. Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled …”

Matthew 10:26–33 ““Therefore do not be afraid of them, because nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known. What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops. And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them will not fall to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father. And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. “Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven.”