Gotta have her!

Welcome to Unseen today.  If you are like me you may have been questioning your value lately.  If you are beyond that, good for you.  Pray for the rest of us. In the meantime, read on for a lesson on our innate worth.

I gotta have her!

I have a confession. I like to watch Pawn Stars on the history channel. If you haven’t seen it, it is a reality show about a pawn shop. People have brought in everything from canned pearls to Picasso paintings. Sometimes a person brings in something that they want way too much for. Sometimes, though, they will bring in something that is much more valuable than they realize. The camera goes off to the back and is just on the owner, Rick. He says, “This___ is really cool. I gotta have it!”

They start to bargain. He usually asks them where they got it. Many time someone says, “Oh, I just picked it up at a garage sale.” If it is something he wants confirmation on he will bring in an expert. The expert appraises the item, and it is sometimes much more than they were planning to ask.  Then they start singing another song.  Most of the time, he gets the items for a good price. Then he restores them and sells them for even more money.

Have you ever felt like you were something life tossed in a garage sale? The enemy of our souls tells us we are worthless, and then uses the despair to get hold of us. We may use self-destructive habits to numb the pain of feeling worthless, which only adds to the feelings. It is a cycle we can only get out of with Jesus. Picture Jesus going to Satan and saying, “I want that person.”

Satan says, “You don’t want this one. She’s not worth much.”

“You’re wrong about that. I gotta have her.!”

“It will cost you.”

Jesus willingly paid for me, and for you, with his life. Then he turns what was once seen as worthless into the treasure that he knows us to be.

                I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, You are not your own. You were bought with a price therefore glorify God  in your bodies. Isa 43:1 says, “But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Verse 4 says, Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 tells us, I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. Many other verses tell the beautiful fact of God’s love for us. Jesus did not have to go to the cross. He did it willingly. In John 10, he says, “I lay down my life for my sheep. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father."

He did this because he looked at you and at me and saw the treasure inside us. Then He said, “I gotta have her!”