You are Valuable.
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Pause for a moment, go out and look through the window of your room. Enjoy the view you see. You see wonderfully & fearfully made creatures , men . Can we see the image of God in them. Ho! what Glorious beings!!! Its not the outer man or the flesh body man we need to look for, but the inner spirit man. We ought to have a sight , in appreciating the beauty of the inner man every day no matter he is a thug or an innocent child. Can we see this in our bosses, colleagues, family or any man on the street.
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Do you know that God looks & adores our inner man all the time ? “ Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.”- 1 Peter 3:4
Man is made of spirit ,soul & body (1 Thess 5:23). The spirit was breathed into the first man.(Gen2:7)
Can we see the glory of that spirit inner man. Can we imagine the capabilities & the potentials of this glorious man. Every thug or every child was equally created beautiful with the image of God. Can we find the value of man? Ps 49:7-8 says “ Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,8 for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice.” Ps 139:13-15 “ For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.”
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Lets open our inner eyes and see the beauty of every man ,the way God sees us. When we do this , we start putting value to everyone we meet , as we realise the true supreme value. Sharing or transferring a Godly wisdom and seeing the person through the scripture will elevate our lives . Appreciate –the root word means to “ increase in value.” A word of appreciation should never be with held whenever we get an opportunity; lest we miss miracles when we do not appreciate . Try to appreciate others even if you are capable of doing the same thing better than them. It produces life, joy, wisdom & miracles. Prov 18 :4 “The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.”
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We do not know what we are missing if we keep our mouth shut , lets make it a habit to appreciate . Jesus never wasted that opportunity, all his encounters with anyone ended in a transfer of a good word. Jesus as we know was the perfecter of faith ,lest he could appreciate the Centurion & the Canaanite lady adoring them by saying ,” He has not seen such faith in Israel . “ What a word of appreciation from a perfecter of Faith. How do you think it will impact them? It ended in huge miracles which we still wonder as we read it . Are we waiting for others to appreciate first, if so you are losing and opportunity of seeing the glory of God. We restrain to utter a good word due to fear of our own authority, position ,status & other factors. But the results are in much greater proportion creating a better stronger personality.
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At times we feel the flesh body man is actually better to see & to be appreciated. This is the phony way our mind or our sight tells us. If we learn the beauty of the spirit man , then there is nothing so glorious as it is . For that we need to gather wisdom about this inner man from the word. Interaction with the Inner man is much superior to the flesh body or outer man. As the word says . 2Cor 4:16 “For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” The interaction with the flesh body man decays after a period of time. The reason is that there is no transfer of eternal life wisdom & hence no real love. Transfer of Godly wisdom on a regularly basis maintains love, oneness & an eternal Goal. Interaction with the spirit inner man is everlasting. Jesus and the Samaritan lady is a perfect example. The lady was interacting with her 5 previous husbands in the flesh body, how long did it last. When Jesus transferred an eternal wisdom , how glorious was that interaction. Try to interact with the spiritman in others . Jesus said I will teach you how to interact with the Spiritman, “ I will make you Fishers of men.”
We try to see people through their faults in the flesh body . How did Jesus see a Peter & a Saul when they faltered ? What happens when we see a person through the scripture?
Do you know that when we see a person through the scripture , we will see the saving grace that leads to the promised glorious end product that God formed him for . We know Simeon ,a devout he took Baby Jesus up in his arms and blessed God and said,
29 “Lord, now you are letting your servant[d] depart in peace,
according to your word;
30 for my eyes have seen your salvation
31 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,
32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles,
and for glory to your people Israel.”
These words are from the old testament , from Isaiah ,psalms, genesis. He saw the baby Jesus through this scripture. He could see the Glorious Saviour in that baby. We can see these glorious beings in our daily life, if we see them through the wisdom of the scripture & share that wisdom with them.
How did Herod see Baby Jesus?
He saw Jesus in the flesh body nature, like someone who will take over his kingdom & wealth . Are we looking at others like an Herod? The end of such a flesh body vision would be death . Herod ordered the baby Jesus to be killed. We can kill people with our mind by viewing them in the flesh body outer nature. We become judgemental ,perversive & hate filled. The extremity of seeing such a person only through his flesh body nature is called Perversion. Its a situation where our body, the 5 senses control our heart or mind. The wisdom for our sight should flow from our heart (inner spiritman ) to the outer man. Our Spirit should control our body.
That is why Jesus said Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”-John7:38
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God values man than any other of his creations. As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoes lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use."
How much do we value others. Do you know that God considers us as his Inheritance & his immeasurable power increases our Value day by day. Is this the way we think about ourselves. God knows that we are immeasurable. Have we put a scale to our own capabilities & limits. Eph 1: 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe…