Have you ever felt dirty, broken, or worthless to God? I know I have been there.
If I offered you a $20 bill, would you take it? What if I wadded it up and threw it on the ground. Would you still want it? What if I stepped on it, kicked it, and even spit on it? Could I still go to the store and spend it?
The answer is yes. That bill has value because of what it is, not how it looks, where it's been, or what it's been used for. A crisp, clean $20 bill is worth the same amount as an ugly, older, more used one.
You may feel like you've been stepped on, beat up, or kicked around. You may feel dirty, unworthy or useless. But, be encouraged by the $20 bill -- no matter what you've been through, you still have value to God!
If I offered you a $20 bill, would you take it? What if I wadded it up and threw it on the ground. Would you still want it? What if I stepped on it, kicked it, and even spit on it? Could I still go to the store and spend it?
The answer is yes. That bill has value because of what it is, not how it looks, where it's been, or what it's been used for. A crisp, clean $20 bill is worth the same amount as an ugly, older, more used one.
You may feel like you've been stepped on, beat up, or kicked around. You may feel dirty, unworthy or useless. But, be encouraged by the $20 bill -- no matter what you've been through, you still have value to God!
Philippians 3:12-14 says...
"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected;
but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which
Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not
count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus."
"Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected;
but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which
Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not
count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind and reaching
forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in
Christ Jesus."