CREDIT: Open Stax College
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Worth can be a sensitive topic for many of us. If I asked you, “How much are you worth?” you would not be wrong to say, “None ya!” — as in “None of your business!” After all, what we’re worth might seem like a private matter. Nevertheless, I read that we’re all actually worth something around $17.18. Several years ago, a scientist estimated that the amount of chemicals in our body, if they could be sold, would be worth a total of $17.18.
Fortunately, each of these chemicals has been arranged by our creator, God in heaven, into what is a truly priceless creation called the human body — a living, breathing, thinking, and doing creature created in His image. But even the best of us is so tarnished and broken by sin that “priceless” might not seem to be the best description of our value. Which makes it even more amazing when we hear God tell each one of us, “He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)
To God our Father, even though we’re tarnished and broken, we’re still His priceless treasures. So much so that He gave up His only Son, Jesus Christ, to cleanse our sin tarnished souls and restore our brokenness to bring us back into His good and perfect presence. However, the world around us, egged on by Satan’s lies, tries convincing us just the opposite in order to drive a wedge between us and God. Through suffering, hunger, poverty, danger, and death the devil seeks to cause us to doubt God’s love for us; to separate us from Him.
But God’s promise to all of us is that none of this will ever separate us from His love. “(Nothing) in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:39) We are His. He will do anything to keep it that way!
In Christ’s Perfect Love,
Pastor Jim