All of us have times in life when we doubt our worth. Difficulty at work, health problems, a shaky relationship or nasty world events may leave us feeling inconsequential or of little value. We may feel like a friend who jokingly told me, "I'm so low you could buy me for a dime and have eleven cents change." But when we are at our lowest, God has ways of showing us His love and our true worth.
Last fall I saw a true television story about a man who had lost a leg in an auto accident and was barely able to make it on his disability pay. His few possessions included a box from his parents containing an old blanket. One day while watching a television program about valuable household items, he saw an old Indian blanket appraised at over $100,000. His old family blanket resembled the one on TV, so he had it appraised.
It was a Navajo "chief's blanket" of high quality woven during the mid-1800s. "It may be worth a hundred fifty thousand dollars or more," the shocked young man was told. After further appraisal, his blanket was sold at auction and brought him $1.5 million dollars! He thought it was just an old blanket, but it was worth a fortune.
You and I are worth more than a fortune to our Heavenly Father, and our worth is not determined by how much we have or how we feel. It is determined by God's love for us, the Creator who has given us life. Our Heavenly Father showed us our true worth in that He gave us His only Son Jesus to forgive us our sins and grant us eternal life.
Jesus once told His disciples, "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:26)
If God cares about something as small as a common sparrow, does He not far more care for us, His highest and most uncommon creation of the universe?
"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all the rest will be yours as well." (Matthew 6:33)
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