We're Precious - not Average

Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of his saints.
Psalm 116:15

    It’s not true what the world says about us. The world teaches, in many subtle and unspoken ways, that we are just average. The subliminal message we are constantly exposed to is:
“You’re just average, there’s nothing particularly special about you.”
    I bumped into a friend of my wife’s sometime in the last year (I think it was in the Spring, but I don’t quite remember). She was having a bad day, and mentioned to me ‘sometimes I just feel so rubbish.’ If you knew this woman you would find such a statement staggering, because she is an individual well-liked, with a very respected husband and great children. I don’t know how many friends she has on Facebook, but I would guess it runs into the thousands. All of my wife’s friends shine (because beautiful people attract beautiful people to them), but this one in particular sparkles.
    The truth is that God says we’re precious. Jesus makes this clear when he tells us that even the hair on our head is numbered, and the above verse declares that when his people die, it’s a precious thing to Him. I suggest to you our deaths are precious to God because our lives are precious, and our lives are precious because we are precious.

    But wait, I hear you say, I’m not a saint - I’m a sinner.

    No.  I suggest to you that if you know Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, then you’re not a sinner saved by grace. Rather you were a sinner saved by grace, now you are a saint. Look the Bible tells me so:

    To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours. (I Corinthians 1:2)

    If we are amongst those who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus then we are saints!

    How you see yourself matters. And we should see ourselves as God sees us. As precious men and women, made in His image, carrying the light of Christ wherever we go.

    In coming blogs I hope to examine some of the ways the world tells us we’re average. It’s subtle propaganda, but its constant. Ever present at school, on TV, and on social media. 

    My wife’s friend didn’t feel precious that day I bumped into her. Her spirits were low because we’re in a spiritual battle, and on that particular day she had been overwhelmed in her spirit. Well, we all have days when we feel despised and rejected by men. Since Jesus was rejected by his own people, so sometimes we, as his disciples, will be too.

But the truth is that we matter to God, and therefore you and I must remind ourselves daily that we are precious - not average.

Thanks for stopping by.
May the Lord bless you, keep you, and make His face shine upon you this day, and always.