Heaven's Treasure

"Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth." -unknown

How simple.
How true.
How profound.

As I was once reminded of this again this past week, in not so many words, it applies and should comfort to both people of faith and people far from God. Anyone, and all of us, in fact, struggle on any given day to remember and focus on the fact that our worth comes from God and not from man.

We may be earthen vessels, but we are heaven's treasure.

The problems created and the havoc wreaked when we focus too long on the negativity that is being cast our way and spoken to us are disconcerting and stressful, to say the least.

So, do we look at others in our lives as God sees them?
Do we look at ourselves the way God does?

As the old hymn goes...

Keep your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face.
And the things of this earth, will grow strangely dim.
In the light of His glory and grace.

On this #missionsFriday, pray for those, even in ministry and in missions, battling a sense of worth. From whatever source the struggle may come, may the keep their face on Christ and their heart set on the things of God. May the temporary problems of their plight not cause them to falter, stumble or fail, but that they would stand strong, reliant upon their Creator. Pray they would be empowered by the Holy Spirit to press on; that the frustration, emotion and chaos would not overwhelm them, but that they would overcome.

By the blood of the Lamb
And the word of their testimony.
For the glory of God
And the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC