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Friday, March 22, 2013

You’re Extremely Valuable


Recent news reported that a rare Chinese bowl bought at a garage sale for $3 has sold at a New York City auction for more than $2.2 million. The bowl was purchased in 2007 and sat on the family’s mantle before selling it for such astronomical price.

When I heard about this five inches, white in color ordinary looking bowl, I couldn’t help but start thinking how God looks at our value. We live in a society where old is rejected. When we reach a certain age we begin to depreciate our value. We get less traction applying for jobs. A younger, smarter and energetic person is preferred over all the years of experience, loyalty and common sense wisdom. At times this can be hard to swallow. But when we discover our value in God, we become attractive, expensive and unstoppable.

This piece of bowl fetched a great value from the auction not because it was coated with silver or gold but because of who its owner was. Research proved that the ordinary looking thousand-year-old ceramic bowl belonged to China’s Song Dynasty. The value of the bowl came from who its owners were. In the same way, your value is not wrapped up in what people say about you, what you can do or what your talents are. Your value comes from who you belong to – the Almighty God. When He created you, He breathed God-life into you. You may look ordinary on the outside but you’re a royalty through and through! Don’t live one more day thinking less of yourself.

Another thing that got me thinking is how the bowl sat on the mantle collecting dust year after year. Many had come and gone in that living room but nobody paid much attention to this valuable item. If God has a mantle your eight by eleven is sitting prominently on it. Your life may not have gotten much traction in recent years but God has just the right time and the right person to walk into your life and celebrate you like never before. You dream person will waltz into your life. An Ace customer will take the business to the next level. Long term sickness will be healed. A wayward child will come home. The more time has passed between you and your situation the more dramatic your miracle will be.

One thing we need to do in our time of need is to reach out to others. Keep an outward focus. Speak life, dreams and visions into people God brings into your life. Say something big over their life. People will rise or fall to the value we attach in them. We have a God-given responsibility to lift the fallen. Treat them with utmost love, respect and honor. When we value others, God will make sure to add value to our lives. He will bring the right appraiser, the right evaluation and the backing of your character that will thrust you in the forefront of things fetching great value.

At times, we all feel a little down and discouraged. Remember, God says you’re priceless. The devil will say that you’re worthless. What you think of yourself will determine your ultimate value.

“God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 NIV).

Imagine God dying for you! You’re worth more than all the diamonds in the world.

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