Intrinsic Value: if you don't know what something or someone is worth you don't know how to treat it. Hello poverty, hello abortion, hello sex-trafficking, hello genocide. We obviously cannot understand what human life is worth without God's knowledge. He knows how much out bodies, minds, and souls cost. It cost him everything. Therefore, we are to honor ourselves and others with the same amount. But we can only do that by first giving ourselves to him. It's not possible without the strength of the Man who was pure enough to express how valuable the image we were created in is. This is why sin is essentially finding our value in anything else outside of God. Nothing can give us value or take it away. We must agree with what God has already spoken, live our lives like he is worthy and do whatever we want. So simple, yet there's still a struggle. Our souls don't have to be downcast though, because it's just the means and method of our growth. "Choosing life over death is a struggle," he said. Aligning our self with truth in a world full of lies isn't easy, but it's worth it.
Friday, September 14, 2012
from the desk of
This is a little peak into my Disciple Training School journal from Week 7's speaker Matt Rawlins; processing his heart for The Fear of the Lord has really shifted my atmosphere...
Intrinsic Value: if you don't know what something or someone is worth you don't know how to treat it. Hello poverty, hello abortion, hello sex-trafficking, hello genocide. We obviously cannot understand what human life is worth without God's knowledge. He knows how much out bodies, minds, and souls cost. It cost him everything. Therefore, we are to honor ourselves and others with the same amount. But we can only do that by first giving ourselves to him. It's not possible without the strength of the Man who was pure enough to express how valuable the image we were created in is. This is why sin is essentially finding our value in anything else outside of God. Nothing can give us value or take it away. We must agree with what God has already spoken, live our lives like he is worthy and do whatever we want. So simple, yet there's still a struggle. Our souls don't have to be downcast though, because it's just the means and method of our growth. "Choosing life over death is a struggle," he said. Aligning our self with truth in a world full of lies isn't easy, but it's worth it.
Intrinsic Value: if you don't know what something or someone is worth you don't know how to treat it. Hello poverty, hello abortion, hello sex-trafficking, hello genocide. We obviously cannot understand what human life is worth without God's knowledge. He knows how much out bodies, minds, and souls cost. It cost him everything. Therefore, we are to honor ourselves and others with the same amount. But we can only do that by first giving ourselves to him. It's not possible without the strength of the Man who was pure enough to express how valuable the image we were created in is. This is why sin is essentially finding our value in anything else outside of God. Nothing can give us value or take it away. We must agree with what God has already spoken, live our lives like he is worthy and do whatever we want. So simple, yet there's still a struggle. Our souls don't have to be downcast though, because it's just the means and method of our growth. "Choosing life over death is a struggle," he said. Aligning our self with truth in a world full of lies isn't easy, but it's worth it.
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