OUR VALUE
Our value is not in who we are or who we were.
Our value is not in what we have done or what we do.
Our value is not in why or how we do it.
Our value is not even in being Christian.
Our value is in Christ.
He is our value.
Therefore it is not me seeking to establish or build my value.
It is simply accepting my value by trusting and receiving and continuing to trust in Christ.
Colossians 1:27-28
27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
I cannot add to Christ's value.
I cannot earn God’s approval.
However, since my value has changed (by being in Christ), then who I am has changed, what I do has changed.
2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
I do the works and will of God, not to attain value.
I do the works and will of God because I now have value.
Galatians 2:20
20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
