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By Jeannie Anderson
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 all
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
come not in what we do or who we are but by WHOSE
WE ARE!
You are special. Have a great day!!!
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