A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a bill. In the room of 200, he
asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up.
He said, "I am going to give
this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up.
He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air.
"Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the
floor with his shoe crumpled and dirty.
"Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.
"My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the
money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many
times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make
and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless."
But no matter what
has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value in God's eyes. To Him, dirty
or crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to Him.
Psalm 17:8 states that God will keep us, "...as the apple of His eye."