Godly Affirmations: Value Yourself

A few years ago, a family decided to go to a yard sale just for fun.  They weren’t looking for anything in particular but were drawn to a certain bowl.  They pulled $3 out of their wallet and took the bowl home happy to have gotten such a good deal.   They displayed it in their living room for several years not giving it much thought, probably storing items in it such as candy.  For some reason, they decided to have someone assess it.  As it turned out, the bowl was a 1000 year old treasure from the Song Dynasty in China.  Sotheby’s estimated it would sale for $200,000 - $300,000 at auction.  The actual selling price was $2.2 million!  

Sometimes you don’t know the value of something until an expert sizes it up and realizes its true worth.
In the same way, we don’t realize our true value when we are using the wrong measure of our worth.  We compare our abilities, performance, successes, failures, possessions, money, and people’s opinions, to name a few, to determine our worth.  However, each of those is ever changing. There will always be someone better than you and someone worse than you. 

In order to discover our true worth, we need to put ourselves up for auction and find out how much someone is willing to give for us.  Sadly, many men and women auction themselves off to people for the very low price of sex or companionship.  Jesus showed how much we were truly worth paying the price of His own life so He could redeem us.  To redeem means to buy back.  Romans 8:32 says, “Since He did not spare even His own Son for us but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also surely give us everything else?”  LB

Though none of us is worthy of salvation, God says that you have such great worth that He gave  the most valuable possession He had to purchase you, His Son, Jesus Christ.  I encourage you this week to pray to God often and affirm this by saying,: ”God, because you say I have worth , I say I have worth.”

Believe it.  It’s the Gospel.

Live Free In Christ, 

Mark Maulding, President and Founder 

www.GraceLifeInternational.com 
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