I remember when I got my first paycheck. The overwhelming feeling of joy as I bought my first hard-earned movie ticket, album, meal, and eventually my first car. There's some kind of pleasure we find in those little green slips of paper and plastic cards, and, unfortunately, there is an atmosphere of fear and despair that surrounds the idea of being without the security of money. In our world that equates success with wealth and self-worth with net-worth, it is often difficult to distinguish the way God feels about us and the way the world tells us we should feel.
Why is it that we often have a hard time feeling like we're important or that we matter? If we know that we matter to God, then why is it that we're still so wrapped up in the way the world measures worth? It's possible that it is because we live in this world, and it's the only tangible thing we have. However, I think the more accurate answer is that we don't truly understand what God's love cost Him. According to John 3:16, God loved (or valued) us so much that He left perfection to live among us in disparity, and eventually die a painful death on the cross so that we could spend eternity with Him.
The craziest thing about this kind of love is that Christ did this for his enemies, for people that would never come to know Him. Whether I ever came to believe and surrender to Him, Christ still would have died for me. That's how much I matter to Him. Jesus could have spent eternity living in heaven, yet He so badly wanted to be near us, that he struggled on earth with us. Therefore, if God loves me so much that He would die for me, I should never find my worth in any other power. And our hope is found in what we learned on Sunday, that nothing can ever separate us from that love.
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That God will help you understand where your true worth lies, in His love.
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