Every 1 matters

One day an antique collector was walking through the city when he noticed a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store and he did a double take.

His expertise told him that the saucer was extremely old and very valuable, so he walked casually into the store and offered to buy the cat for two dollars.

The store owner replied, “i’m sorry, but the cat isn’t for sale.”

The collector said , “Please, I need a hungrey cat around the house to catch mice. I’ll pay you twenty dollars for the cat.”

And the owner said “Sold,” and handed over the cat.

As the collector headed for for the door he turned and said, “Hey, for twenty bucks I wonder if you could throw in that old saucer. The cat’s used to it and it’ll save me from having to get a dish.”

The owner replied, “Sorry buddy, but that’s my lucky saucer. So far this week I’ve sold sixty-eight cats.”

What is valuable to me? I think that’s an important question for each of us to answer.

Is it antiques? Cars, money, health?

What do we value? how about people?

Do people really matter to us? And if so how much?

People matter to God! They matter so much to him that he sent his son to die for them!

Romans 5:8 “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

This one truth demonstrates the deepth of how much people matter to God.

John 3:16 ““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

The depth of God’s love and eternal purpose for us are wraped up in these two verses. Knowing these truths transforms our live and