God bless!
Do you think diamonds realize their value? Do you think a car can tell how much it cost? Of course common sense tells us these objects have no way of telling their value as they have no mind, soul or body. Knowing this why do so many of us not understand our value? I guess it has to do with the fact that we truly don’t know how to value the things we have or what things have been given up for us. Let me expand: Jesus Christ was given up (His life) for you and me. This was not a figurative sacrifice it was an actual sacrifice. He could have done something else but He decided to see His mission through. He gave it all, what value does that have in our eyes? I would hope all of us would say it has an enormous value as a sacrifice of a human life on its own is huge but the life of the Messiah makes it an indescribable sacrifice. Now why am I talking about value so much today? To understand what it means to be chosen or a special possession we have to be able to qualify and or compare it against something else. That something else is the actual life of Christ. He gave up His own life so that we could live, He gave up His own joy so that we can smile, He gave up His own dreams so we can dream! Never saw it this way? I understand, many of us have disconnected with His sacrifice because of our natural inability to understand the supernatural. I get it. Though this is understandable in the natural we have to begin to see in the super natural, it may not make sense to us as humans but it makes perfect sense to us as His children. Today I went into all of this because we have devalued ourselves for way too long and we are settling for second best all across our life. He wants better for us. We are His chosen people, a royal priesthood, His special possession! Take a minute and let that simmer in your mind and after you do reboot your mind and walk in the Truth which is you deserve better! Stop giving up and giving into less than what you deserve. Change the darkness around you today with your Light!
Pastor Joell A. Perez
1 Peter 2: 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
