A Word on Worth

"When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
     The moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
 What is man that You are mindful of him,
     The son of man that You care for him?"  (Psalm 8:3-4)

    Psalm 8 is one of my favorite passages!  It decribes how awesome and powerful our Lord is; but even greater, it describes His love and His regard for us!!  I think we have all been where David was at some point in our lives. "What is man that you are mindful of him?"  More specifically: "Who am I that You love me?"  We see God, we recognize His greatness, and somewhere in there we lose sight of our value.  I don't mean to say that we have value because of our merit, or because we are so good.  I mean to say that God has given us value! 
   Get a load of Genesis 1:26-27! "Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.  And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over all the livestock, and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.  So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female He created them."  We have been A) made in God's image, and B) given dominion over all the earth.  How cool is that???  Picture this: God picks up a handful of dirt, forms is into a person, and then sees fit to give that clay figure, not only life, but a spirit that God wants eternal fellowship with! 
    Paul wrote a powerful message to Titus.  Titus 2:11-14 says, "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from lawlessness and to purity for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works."  The particular thing I want to pull from this passage is the word REDEEM.  What does REDEEM mean? It means to buy back. How did He buy us back? By giving His life for us.  His blood was the currency of that spiritual transaction.  We are worth something to God if He is willing to die for us.
   To say you aren't worth forgiveness (or anything to that effect) is to call God either a liar or stupid.  And I thing we would all agree that neither of these are the case.  You are worth it! Because God made you worth it!

Make it a great day!!