Hey, how are ya? 

I recently met with a young lady in our church who, like many people, is trying to discover her value and worth as a human being.   

She told me how she was rejected as a child and placed into foster care, how she was hit and almost killed by a semi-truck when she was riding her bike down the side of a highway.  She told me she was sexually abused by family members,and how she ended up living a promiscuous and drug filled life.      

Most people haven't gone through what this young lady has gone through, however, there are many people who can't see the value they possess because they allow their past to define their worth!   We need to get to the place in our faith where we aren't defined by what the world has told us or inflicted upon us, but rather what God did for us and says about us!  

I like to use an illustration of taking a $20 bill and asking, "how much is this worth?"  Of course the answer is $20.  Then, I scrunch it up, spit on it, tear it, and step on it.  I then suggest that many of us, like that young lady in my church, have been scrunched up, spit on and stepped on by wrong doing in our lives.  Then I unfold the $20 bill and ask, "So how much is this worth now?"  The answer.is still $20.  You see, inspite of what evil we have either done or gone through, the value of the human soul hasn't lost it's worth.  You are valuable to God, and the fact Christ died for you proves that!  

As believer's in Christ, the Bible tells us that we are redeemed, and have become children of God.    Old things are passed away, behold all things have become new! 2 Cor.5:21 says,  "For God made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to become sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him (Jesus)."    You are a new creation with tremendous value and worth!

Be renewed in your mind, allow God to wipe away the stain of the past, and see your value as God sees you...PRICELESS!

Be Blessed!