“Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.”
There’s a difference between losing something and misplacing something. If you misplace something, it means it wasn’t important to you. But if you lose it, it’s valuable enough for you to try to find it. You misplace a pin; you lose your glasses.
People are only lost because they’re worth finding. The value of a masterpiece doesn’t go down when it’s lost; it goes up. When you aren’t connected to God, you’re lost in many ways. You lose your direction, God’s protection, your potential, your happiness, and your future home in heaven just to name a few. But there’s one thing you don’t lose: your value. You’re so valuable that, on the very first Christmas, God paid the price of his Son to find you. The most famous verse in the Bible says, You matter so much to God that he underwent a rescue mission to find you. He came to Earth as a little baby so that one day he could die on a wooden cross for your sin. The Christmas story reveals your value. God loved you enough that, when you were lost, God sent his very best, his own son to get you back.
The enemy always wants us to have a skewed perception of how we look at our own worth. Because when we have that misplaced sense of our worth, he creeps in between and makes us look elsewhere so we can take our eyes off God. Our worth comes from who we are in Christ. We are loved by Him, we are redeemed, we are His children for whom he gave his life so that we can be reconciled to the Father. That is how God sees us, worthy of the greatest sacrifice. And that is how we should view ourselves too, through the eyes of our Lord.
The reality is that at times even when we might know the truth of who we are in Christ, it can be hard to live from this truth when those near and dear to us may not necessarily make us feel of worth unless we offer something, provide for them or play a certain role in their life. And although hard, it is in those moments that we need to speak the truth of who we are in God to ourselves. If we rely on our emotions to speak to us, that is not truth. What God says, that is the truth. And so, even when we are not feeling it, we speak it.
Where Are You Christmas? I found my value