A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a
$20 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.
He picked it up, now 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 clean, 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."
THOUGHT: The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or
who we are but by WHOSE WE ARE! You are special - Don't ever forget it!
Please Pass this on to others! You will never know the lives it touches, the hurting hearts it
speaks to, or the Hope that it can bring! Count Your Blessings,
not your problems!
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