Go Where You’re Worth the MOST: To God!

I read a story today because it had a catchy picture with it. It was a simple, generic bottle of water sitting on a table, and the story was about knowing your worth.

It said that a bottle of water costs $0.25 at Costco, and $5 at an airport, {and lots of other varying prices in between}. It concluded with a reminder to “Know your worth, and go where you are valued.”

I’m literally seeing this message shared everywhere.

And then I’m seeing people actually putting this into practice. LEAVING places just because they don’t feel appreciated. Jobs, churches, even spouses and families. And that last part, particularly, breaks my heart.

I believe the people who write these have good intentions.

But it’s been on my heart to be careful about the know-your-worth messages.

Don’t pass these messages on, friends. It may taste good to your flesh, but it’s POISON to your soul.

You see, Jesus KNEW His worth.

And yet He still came to serve both the people who appreciated Him and the ones who didn’t,

and He chose to BE a friend instead of focusing on who was being a good or bad friend to Him. Or the WORST. (Think of Judas.)

Jesus knew He was a rare vintage bottle of water.

The ONE AND ONLY Son of God.

And yet, He didn’t “Go where people knew his worth and treated Him like He deserved.”

No- He came to Earth.

He poured Himself out,

day in and day out,

and eventually shed every last drop of His precious blood on the cross,

for the ones who loved Him-

but also for the very ones who hung him there to begin with-

asking for God to forgive them because He said they didn’t know what they were doing.

He prayed the best for them

AND GAVE HIS BEST, HIS ALL,

even when they were at their worst.

He did this for me too.

I didn’t always know His worth.

I looked at Him as a “plain bottle of water” and went running after a “fancy bottle of soda” instead. {I went running hard after the things of this world.}

I am SO glad He didn’t leave me, or turn His heart away from me then.

He kept after me, kept sending people to tell me how much He loved me, and He kept loving me…regardless of how I was acting, because He IS love.

I used to love inspirational quotes, but I try to be careful with them now, and test if they’re really quenching my soul or if there’s even one ingredient in them that is going to make me thirstier.

Deep inside we all know our worth.

But we don’t get it from our own self.

We ARE worthy, because God said we are.

He said we were worthy of creating.

He said we were worth it to Him, to send His only Son to pay for our sins because no matter how we tried, we always fell short of being able to attain a ticket to heaven on our own- and yet he WANTS us there, with Him.

And Jesus wants us there too, so badly that He died a brutal death and then conquered the grave to make a way for that to happen!

So- if you want to go where you’re valued,

go to God!

He calls you a treasure!

When we truly KNOW our worth, in His eyes,we WANT to go to Him! And keep coming to Him, day after day after day.

And in His presence, in His Word, we get the best advice about how to deal with this world, where some people appreciate us but many don’t.

And He shows us how to set our course, going out from fullness and not wandering around looking for it.

Serving from that fullness, with our need to be recognized as valuable completely satisfied in Him.

So that we are able to give our service out as grace {unearned favor} to others.

Receiving grace is what changes people, and changed people change the world, starting with their own marriages, homes, families, workplaces, and churches.

We don’t need inspiration, we already have it in Him.

What we need is REVIVAL!

We need people to get hungrily in the Bible, and passing HIS messages on!

Bring His light out and shine it into the world!

And when you are struggling in this world, feeling undervalued and unappreciated- go spiritually to the place where you are MOST valued: God! ❤️