Jesus Christ loves you with an unconditional, everlasting love.

There is nothing you could ever do to diminish His love for you.

There is nothing you need do to increase His love for you.

Jesus is love.

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, rumpled, 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!

Hebrews 12:

¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let us run with patience the race He set before us, looking unto Jesus!

Coach Patti