What’s it worth?

I saw a picture on Facebook today that talked about the value of a bar is steel. How it cost five dollars but depending on what you made with it, it could be worth three hundred thousand dollars. I saved the picture because it resonated with me.

I have marinated on this picture all day. I have thought about my worth, I have thought about the things I have and how they affect my worth, and I have thought about my intrinsic worth being the person I am.

I don’t know about you but I come from humble beginnings. My family since before me has always been a paycheck to paycheck family. We have never had all that we wanted, although we have had all that we needed. So when I was young and didn’t have the nicest things it made me question my worth. Was I as good as the others even though I didn’t have?

As I got older I had decided I was going to work as many hours as needed, do as many jobs, and never take time off so I could have almost all that I wanted. I have sometimes put needs on the back burner for wants, I have placed material possessions in front of basic necessities, I have placed a higher value on what others thought my worth was.

Now looking back on things, the way life is so fleeting, the way material possessions are here today gone tomorrow, the way your value to others is sometimes based on their need of you. I feel like I was lost. My value is mine, it is not based on what I have, where I came from, or what I can do for someone.

The Bible says that God chose us to be his holy and without fault even before the world was created. I think that should carry more weight in determining your value than anything you can or will ever possess on this planet. To know that the creator of all looked on us with Love and saw great value in us before anything else. It is a breath of fresh air, and it really opened my eyes to how we should determine our value.

Let’s look at ourselves through God’s eyes. Let us not worry with the opinions of the man down the street because our father thinks we are amazing. Let us not trouble our hearts over material things we don’t have because God looks at what you possess in your heart. Love someone the way God loves you.

I love you.