If you receive foreign currency, without knowing which country it is from and its foreign exchange-rate, you have no clue about how much it is worth.
Likewise, if you want to know your value, you have to find the right measurement from the origin that you are from.
Knowing your value is the only way of restoring your self-esteem. But with what unit do you measure your value? The world teaches us to value our value by the unit of social status, financial condition, people’s praise, virtues, or achievement, etc. But sooner or later, such kind of self-esteem will pop out like bubble when we don’t live up to the standard of the secular measurement.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth to reveal to humans the right measurement for our value: we are created in the image of the infinite God.
Even though we are mortal and finite in this life, we are given potential and power to rule over the earth. Don’t you want to know this potential and power He grants each of us? If you do, how will you find it?
Jesus uses the natural law to explain the spiritual law. He says:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 12:24)For bearing much fruit in your life, your pride and self-dependence need to go away. Look at a farmer. He plants the seed and then waits in expectation for God to make it grow. Likewise, you first receive and plant the seed of the gospel to your heart, which is Jesus Christ came to save you by His sacrifice for your sins. Moreover, through regularly coming to learn His truth like watering the seed, and confessing your sins to Him like weeding in the field of your heart, then wait for God’s timing. The seed in your heart in due time will grow to a beautiful abundance of life, one of a kind, designed by Him.
So I pray: Lord, God, please give us a heart of fearing You, not people including ourselves. Therefore, we can hate sins and die to sins, then we will be alive to God in Jesus Christ.