May 11
It is told that a child from the wrong side of the tracks, dressed in tatters, without the niceties of life was verbally accosted by other children who enjoyed better circumstances. When attacked with the barbs of their negative opinion of him, the child boldly retorted that contrary to appearance, he was extremely valuable because, in his words, “God don’t make no junk.”
When we get down on ourselves, when we feel we haven’t ‘made it’ to the level we should have attained in our career or we haven’t accumulated the wealth we thought our investments would have accrued for us, or we aren't as believers, as spiritual as we should be, we need to remember the words of that little boy. Our worth is established in whose we are in Christ, not in what we can achieve for ourselves.
Indeed, the world measures us by how much of its wealth we have accumulated or how much of its power we wield. The standard of earth, however, is a fleeting one. No matter how far we’ve gone toward the success the world system esteems, the reality is that in one fleeting moment, it can all be taken away from us. I think of a wealthy senator who was heir to a great family fortune who died in a plane crash. His wife inherited his wealth and married someone of an opposing political party! Neither his spouse nor his fortune nor his own life and were his!
Our security, our value, if measured in temporal terms is tenuous at best. Whether impoverished as the little boy or in possession of great wealth and power as was the senator, our circumstances are fleeting. To be established, to possess the sense of well-being that comes with being truly safe, we must know the One who has purchased our eternal security. In Psalm 100:3 we are told, “Know that the Lord is God; it is He who has made us and we are His. We are His people and He is our Shepherd who guards us as His sheep.” We who have Jesus lack nothing.
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