God says not only are your greatly loved, He says

you are extremely valuable. How much do

you think you're worth?

I'm not talking about your net worth; I'm talking about your self worth.

Don't ever confuse your valuables with your value

as a person.

You can be rich or poor but it has nothing to do with your value as a person.

The worth of something depends on

who created it

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb. I

thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!

Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in

adoration—what a creation!

You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my

body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was

sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book,

you watched me grow from conception to birth;

all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared

before I’d even lived one day.

(Psalm 139:13-16 – The Message)

The worth of something depends on

what is paid for it.

God paid a great price for you. So don’t become slaves of

anyone else.(1 Corinthians 7:23 – Contemporary English Bible)

A high price has been paid for your freedom, so don’t devalue God’s investment by becoming

a slave to people. (1 Corinthians 7:23 – The

Voice)

For God has bought you with a great price. So use every part

of your body to give glory back to

God because he owns it. (1 Corinthians 6:20 – Living

Bible)

You know that a price was paid to redeem you from following the empty ways handed on to

you by your ancestors; it was not paid with things that perish

(like silver and gold),

but with the precious blood of the Anointed, who was like a

perfect and unblemished sacrificial lamb.

(1 Peter 1:18-19 – The Voice)

It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-

headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood,

you know . . .

And this was no afterthought. God always knew he was going to do this for you. (1 Peter 1:18-19 – The

Message)

The worth of something depends on

who owns it.

Have you forgotten that your body is the temple of the Holy

Spirit, who lives in you, and that you are not the owner of your own body? You have been bought,

and at what a price!

Therefore bring glory to God both in your body and your

spirit, for they both belong to him.

(1 Corinthians 6:20 – Phillips Paraphrase)

Look at the birds! They don’t worry about what to eat—they don’t need to sow or reap or

store up food—

for your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more

valuable to him than they are. (Matthew 6:26 – Living Bible)

Aren’t two sparrows sold for only

a penny? But your Father knows when any one of them

falls to the ground. Even the hairs on

your head are counted.

So don’t be afraid! You are worth much more

than many sparrows. (Matthew 10:29-31 –Contemporary English

Version)

The worth of something depends on

thepurpose of it.

Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get

ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we

were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready.

And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway.

We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying

for, and we can understand how someone good and noble

could inspire us to selfless sacrifice.

But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in

sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

(Romans 5:6-8 – The Message)

There is a direct correlation between your worth and your purpose: the more you live

with a sense of your inherent worth, the more you’ll live with

an awareness of your God-given purpose.

When you see your worth, you will live like your

worthwhile. When you see your value, you will live like you are

valuable.

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in

Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10 – New

Living Translation)

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