One day, we heard a sermon from one of the best and most godly pastors we have ever known. This was 20 years ago, and I remember it almost like it was yesterday!! What is beauty? What is value? How do we know that we, as human beings, are valuable?
The pastor pulled out a twenty dollar bill. Waved it high for all to see. Then he crumpled it, stomped on it, squished it. Then he asked who wanted it. An older lady said she would take it! He said, “Why?” “It’s all messed up and crumpled.”
With tears in her eyes, she said, “Because it still has value.”
You might have been abused, kicked (figuratively or literally), shunned, rejected even by your own mother, “stomped on” by kids in school, your own family, your spouse, or anyone else.
But all of these things does not mean you have lost your value. Just as a dollar is still worth a dollar even crumpled, you are still of inestimable value.
Even if you feel like no one sees your worth, God does.
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