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'I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love' Psalm 31:7
If someone offered you a 50 pound note today would you take it? Oh come on, you don't have to think so hard; it's not a trick question!
Of course you would! But what if they screwed it up, shoved it in their mouth, mashed it between their gnashers and then offered it to you in its soggy state? You still want it now? Sure you do! If they then blew their nose on it leaving a big green bogey on display, you still gonna take it? Course you are!
Even if they threw it in the dirt and stomped on it with their big size 9's you're still up for having it aren't you? And when they dropped it down the toilet, you'd be there fishing it out - gloves or no gloves. It may have been misused, chewed, snotted and spat on, but it's never lost its value. That 50 pound is still 50 pound. It's value is still the same.
Sometimes we can experience very harsh changes in our life, that aren't right or good. Changes caused either by others around us, our own bad choices; sometimes a mixture of both.
These life changes can leave us feeling, used and abused, broken and incomplete, useless and worthless. But with God you never lose your value, no matter what has happened in your life. Today, He says to you, 'you are precious and honoured in my sight ... I love you' (Isaiah 43:4 NIV).
written by Bob Gass
'I will be glad and rejoice in your unfailing love' Psalm 31:7
If someone offered you a 50 pound note today would you take it? Oh come on, you don't have to think so hard; it's not a trick question!
Of course you would! But what if they screwed it up, shoved it in their mouth, mashed it between their gnashers and then offered it to you in its soggy state? You still want it now? Sure you do! If they then blew their nose on it leaving a big green bogey on display, you still gonna take it? Course you are!
Even if they threw it in the dirt and stomped on it with their big size 9's you're still up for having it aren't you? And when they dropped it down the toilet, you'd be there fishing it out - gloves or no gloves. It may have been misused, chewed, snotted and spat on, but it's never lost its value. That 50 pound is still 50 pound. It's value is still the same.
Sometimes we can experience very harsh changes in our life, that aren't right or good. Changes caused either by others around us, our own bad choices; sometimes a mixture of both.
These life changes can leave us feeling, used and abused, broken and incomplete, useless and worthless. But with God you never lose your value, no matter what has happened in your life. Today, He says to you, 'you are precious and honoured in my sight ... I love you' (Isaiah 43:4 NIV).
written by Bob Gass
