The Value Of You

THE VALUE OF YOU

Ever hear the cliché that someone’s life “isn’t worth a plugged nickel”? Ever feel worthless?  Sad, because nobody wants anything to do with you?  Useless because something went wrong, and you seem to be to blame? Well, stop blaming yourself for being worthless, because God values you! Yep, He sure does! What? You think I’m kidding? I’ll take you 10 places in the bible where it explains how He values you.

1. Luke 12:6-7; “Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.” Hopefully you feel a little more valuable with that piece from Scripture; but there’s more…

2. Matt. 10:29-31; “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.” If all the hairs of your head are numbered, surely you feel more value in that, unless maybe you’re bald. This appears to be a recount of Luke 12’s sparrows, but let’s look at another piece of Scripture to get you feeling of more value and pick you up…

3. Prov. 3:12; “For whom the Lord loveth He correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.” You might say, “Oh, great, since my Dad loved me, he took a switch to my behind when I did wrong.” But you have to understand that you grew up to be good because of his correcting you with that switch, and you admit he did it because he loved you, it just didn’t feel good. But you love your Dad, and you know he loves you, so understand that if our Father corrects you, it’s because He loves you, and you accept it because you love and respect Him too, and it is as the same as you loving and respecting your Dad. Your Dad valued you when correcting you, and so it is with the Father in heaven. You don’t know how different it may be to have God correct you; He may decide you need a “spanking” that last years! Ouch! Rev. 3:19 has similar wording from Jesus Himself! Job 5:17-18 has similar verbiage as well. Okay, next…

4. John 10:3; “To Him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear His voice: and He calleth His own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.” So here in this passage we know that He knows our names and calls us by them. Surely you feel more valuable that God would call you by name; after all, some people might not remember your name because you’re not so important to them, but look at how important God is to you, and He remembers your name…

5. Phil. 4:19; “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ.” Supply all my needs for giving to missionaries? This is what the passage means here for the church, but don’t forget; we the people make up the church. For the believer, truly we know when we make supplications to Him when we want something, if it is His will and we truly need it, we get it. Isn’t it comforting and nice to know that if we need something, and He knows it, we can have faith that He will supply it to us? How much value we must have that He pays that much attention to someone like you and me; sinners?

6. Job 31:4; “Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?” What? He bothers to count my steps? That’s very humbling! I have that much value to the Creator of everything that He would bother to count my steps? Now come on, you have to feel better that the Creator would bother to count your every step. He is always watching us, as is in 2 Chron. 16:9. But there’s even more…

7. Mal. 3:16-18; “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. ‘And they shall be Mine’, saith the Lord of hosts, ‘in that day when I make up My jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth not.’” Naturally I fear the Lord, who can destroy me, but I can’t imagine bothering to write down whatever we say; again, it’s humbling to have our Father and Creator make so much of us that He should value what we say enough to have it all written down. And to make jewels of those of us who fear Him and think of His name? As a special, valued treasure? Wow! What value we seem to have; and yet, there’s even more!

8. Ps. 56:8-9; “Thou tellest my wanderings; put Thou my tears into a bottle; are they not in Thy book? When I cry unto Thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know, for God is with me.” Wow! He bottles our tears, and saves them in His book, too, as He did David’s? What love He has for us, that He saves our tears in a bottle in His book. And as God is for us, He is on our side, and as it says in Rom. 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” He values us a lot, huh?

9. Isa. 41:13; “For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, ‘Fear not, for I will help thee.’” Just as Israel counted on God to help them in this passage, so we can count on Him to hold our hand and bring us through this life and all the troubles of each and every day, and sometimes our troubles last a year or more, but He brings us through it all until He calls us home.

10. John 3:16; "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This is the greatest sign of love we have from God; because He values us so much, He spared not His Son that He sent Him to die on a cross for our redemption, that we may all have the opportunity to be in His eternal joy. See the value you have, that our Creator, yes, the Creator of all that is, our Father in heaven, will hold your hand, count the hairs on your head, and your steps, and even bottle your tears for safekeeping. And the greatest demonstration of our value to Him was that He sent His Son to cover our sins, and all we need do is believe on Him!  How wonderful it is to have so much value!