Jesus Restored Value

Is 1:18”Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.”

Value.

When I was young, I was extremely shy. I mean, hide behind my sister so she can do my talking, shy. I was sensitive to my surroundings and how I was treated and perceived love/ acceptance or the lack thereof.

My value was based on acceptance.

When I was mistreated, I crumpled or got angry. When I was slandered, I felt shame and anger. I wanted to be accepted for who I was, not who someone wanted me to be.

So, I became “outgoing”.

My value then became in how I acted and how I looked. That failed miserably because I discovered the hard way that “looks” can be abused.

Sexual assault and the shame and confusion of those who thought they were helping left me tormented and suicidal.

I had absolutely no value . I felt my life was worthless.

I walked away from all I knew and got lost in the mountains of Mexico serving on a missions trip. While there, God miraculously healed my tormented mind. I could breath again.

And then I met my husband and started having kids.

My value became in how well of a mom, wife and “helper” I was.

I failed miserably when my kids made me angry or Ted asked for more than I was able to give and “ministry” became a burden I could not bear. Loving people became my husbands “thing”... I was done. People were just too much for me.

My value was based on my behavior and no matter how “good” I was or how much I tried, I couldn’t do it. Life was too painful, people too difficult and trauma ( of a LOT of stuff left unsaid) too much.

Who is this God that would allow so much suffering and still want me to call “Good Father.”? I was done. The sanctification through suffering felt like abuse. Rooting out sin was a BOTTOMLESS PIT.

And then, one day the Spirit of God met me at my lowest and restored what I never knew I had. True value.

He breathed on me and told me that my value was in Him. Jesus came to make me an heir with Him. He was my brother, and I was a daughter of God. On my head was placed a spiritual crown of life with the authority of a royal princess to freely give out the generous gifts of the Father. There were too many to count- “give it freely because there’s more where it came from”, God said to me.

No longer is my value on anything else beside my “rightness with God.” (Not my gender, my looks, race, personality or financial position... that was self-righteous!). Even when I make mistakes and sin, positionally, nothing changed! I’m still a daughter; still loved, accepted and LIKED by God, my father! I’m forgiven ...I was forgiven at the cross. So I pick myself up pretty quick now- without the old shackles of shame.

THAT’S the Lamb of God!!!

He didn’t come to reveal our sin, He came to restore our value!!

PS: He removed our sin as far as the east is from the west and made us new creations, children of God and co-heirs with Him - our DNA is His DNA and as He is so ARE WE.

If He is healer, we heal.

If He is love, we are too.

2 Cor 5:21 “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”