lasting value

The quality of our possessions is often marked by how long they last.  Watches, automobiles, lawnmowers, dishwashers, sweaters, shoes....things we depend on for work, play and basic life functions are valued according to their useful lives.  But, inevitably, the watch breaks, the car breaks down, the lawnmower forgets how to start and the shoe loses its sole.  We don't expect these things to run forever.  We do, however, expect to keep on living.  Even though every person who has ever lived in all the centuries past has passed on to another dimension...most of the people many of us have known in our lives are still living.  And so we are almost deluded into thinking that the days will just keep rolling.  But our bodies are preparing for change even if we aren't.  The joints complain, the muscles refuse, the eyes play games, the memory forgets, the ears won't hear of it and our internal organs seem to periodically go on strike.  All the while we exercise the power of denial with creams, potions, powders and lotions....but we only go through the motions.  We are right to be in denial about our demise because we were designed for a different destiny.  The "you" beneath your skin knows that there is an eternal soul that waits to be set free from this "tent".  We have lasting value, but I suspect that many of us don't consider who values us the most.  When we begin to realize that our maker has a forever view of our lives we realize that the value He places on us is far greater than the value we place on ourselves.

 

2 Corinthians 4:^16-18So we're not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us. There's far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith