Sorry for the long time between posts, I have been really busy with the start of school and volleyball. I will try to be a little more regular in my posts now that things are settling into a routine.
I have a basketball card that is supposedly worth a little over $300. I have tried on several occasions to sell it and have been unsuccessful, nobody has been willing to pay what it is "worth". You see the problem is, something's worth is determined by what the buyer is willing to pay for it. If no one will pay $300 for my card, it isn't really worth $300.
Because of my job, I spend a lot of time around teenagers. As the girl's volleyball coach, much of that time is with teenage girls. I have come to see how little a lot of girls think they are worth. (I do see this in the boys too, but not to the same extent.) It pains me whenever I hear a girl talking about how worthless she is or how ugly she is. It makes me want to ask them, "Do you know how much you are really worth? You are worth what someone is willing to pay for you and you have already been bought. You were purchased by God and He paid the ultimate price. He paid His Son's life for you." We have all been purchased by God at the ultimate price. God thought that each one of us was worth the life of His only begotten Son. That means God thinks we have great value. We need to start viewing ourselves and others as God does, as people of ultimate worth.
