I Am Given Value
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What I Learned in Axis Is: I Am Given Value
Know: I am valued by God and valuable to God.
Do: Know your value, live your value.
Funny thing about the word valuable. It’s two words…value and able.
Value- to hold in high regard
Able- the ability to be
God has given us the ability to be value-able, to be held in high regard and there can’t be value without you!
Example: My backpack that was stolen out of my truck (and later returned). My backpack had value for not what it looked like, but for the important task I gave it- to keep me organized. Because the backpack has value to me, I gave it purpose. The purpose I gave it made it even more valuable to me.
God has given us value and through our value He has given us purpose.
“God places inestimable value on the human soul. He paid the redemption price of the blood of his son Jesus Christ to purchase his own people who are precious to him. Everything that achieves or maintains this relationship is to be valued.”
Where does our value come from?
1.) We are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Being made in God’s image gives us natural and permanent value.
2.) Psalms 8:4-5 (AMP)- “…What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him? Yet you have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:…”
3.) The fact that no amount of silver or gold could satisfy the price of our souls proves our value to God is incalculable.
4.) Jesus even asks us in Matthew 6:26 are we not more valuable than the birds of the air that do not sow or reap, but are looked after by God himself.
Maybe you doubt your value and have been stolen from God by whimsy, rebellion, or you have fallen victim to the enemy’s casuistry and sophistry. Consider Matthew 13:44-46 (MSG)
“God’s kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidentally found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic- what a find!- and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field…
Or, God’s kingdom is like a jewel merchant on the hunt for excellent pearls. Finding one that is flawless, he immediately sells everything and buys it.”
That’s what happens with us. The world is the field and God is searching Himself, through others, looking for that hidden treasure and that flawless pearl so that He may give everything to buy it! God found us although hidden, we were treasured and flawless and God purchased us for himself through Jesus.
We were bought for a price and we are not our own, our bodies are now temples, our souls now priceless, we have been made into vessels fit for an honorable purpose- to win souls and glorify God’s name always.
