Wednesday, June 9, 2010

VALUE
How should I treat those whom our society devalues?



Scripture To Consider:
Jesus Cleanses a Leper

A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. "If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean," he said. Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out and touched him. "I am willing," He said. "Be Healed!"
Mark 1:40-41

Big T's Thought To Ponder:

If we really think about it, we were all just like lepers at one time in a sense, each one of us was still a citizen of this fallen world and captive to the sin of it. The value of a person before coming to God and accepting the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ is just like filthy dirty rags.

"We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind."
Isaiah 64:6

The value of a person is not found through the good works they do and that which can be seen on the outside. The real value of a person is found on the inside. God does not value us by our outer appearance, by our deformities, or our possible handicaps. None of us are too disgusting or ugly for God's sovereign and loving grace.

God looks beyond our outwardly appearance, past our deformities, through our worldly diseased outer shell and the ugliness of our sins within. Our heavenly Father loves us so much that He sent His beautiful and flawless Son, Jesus Christ to come and touch us... to wash us... to heal us... and to make us new beautiful creations and imitators of Himself.

When you feel ugly and unacceptable or you feel disgusted or repulsed by another, stop and remember the perfect example that God gave us all; how He touched each one of us. Stop and reach out for that ugly and deformed leper that God chooses to put in your path today and allow Jesus to touch them through each one of us today!


God's Truth & Promises:

" Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory."
Romans 15:7

"This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. "
John 15:12

"If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much."
Matthew 5:46


There is no such thing as a unlovable person, God loves all of us!
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