Monday, October 24, 2011

I heard a story today....
A speaker came out onto the stage. He pulled out a one-hundred dollar bill.
"Who would like this one-hundred dollar bill?" he asked.  Hands shot up all around the room.
Then the speaker crumpled the paper, threw it on the floor and ground the dirt into it with his foot. Holding up the dirty, crumpled and tattered money, he then asked, "Now, who wants this one-hundred dollar bill?" 
The same hands went into the air.  "And that is why God still wants you," he continued. "You may be battered and bruised. You may be tattered and torn. You may be crumpled and creased.  But that does not change your value to God any more than what I have done changes the value of this one-hundred dollar bill. You are still precious and valuable to the God who chose you, redeemed you, and loves you as His own."

"He knows how we are formed; he remembers that we are dust" ~ Psalm 103:14

God understands that we are fatally flawed creatures, yet He deems us immeasurably valuable no matter how crumpled and soiled we are.  Thank God!!

2 comments:

Race Bannon said...

So do we get the hundred dollars?

Mrs. K said...

WOW what a powerful demonstration.