Our Value

I was at a court of honor for scouts when the Scoutmaster gave his “Scoutmaster Minute”.  I was distracted by the chaos in the gym and also by my three busy children, but as he began to talk, I instantly took note. He held up a brand new, crisp one dollar bill and asked the audience who would like the dollar. Of course nearly every young boys hand went up. After all, who doesn’t want money? He then went on to crumple the dollar bill in his hand, ruining its perfectness. He then put it on the floor and stepped on it, grinding it into the filthy gym floor. He then bent over, picked the wadded bill up and again asked the audience who would like the dollar bill? Again, every hand shot up. He then went on to explain that it didn’t matter what the dollar’s appearance was, it still had the exact same value whether it was crisp and new or crumpled and dirty. That’s exactly how we are. Our value in God’s eyes and as His children will never change, it cannot. We can and will become dirty, crumpled and stained through our sins but that does not make our value any less in God’s eyes and neither should it in our own. We can rejoice in the knowledge that God sent His Son to make repentance possible, to make it so that our once dirty and sinful self can become clean and white and pure as snow through His blood. My hope and prayer for all of God’s children is that we can see ourselves through His eyes—that we can stop letting the world dictate our worth, but realize that as His children, we are all of great value. Can we stop listening to the world and start hearing Him?