My Value Is Found In His Love For Me

This morning while in prayer I thought of my value. What is it that makes up my value? Or yours?

I had had a dream in the early hours of the night. In the dream the people were pouring a foundation for a home. They had dug out the hole, squared up everything and then were preparing for the pour. I came along and I said “where are your form boards?” The boards that are put in place with sides of plywood or special plastic panels. You would have thought I threatened their lives. They flipped out. Yelling and screaming at me they proceeded to tell me they knew what they were doing. For me, it was clear to see they did not. My effort to save them trouble and despair went unheeded.

What a shame…All that time and energy in preparation, to cut a corner or save time. I see it all the time. A person will devote themselves for a period of time and then make an attempt to circumvent the process. What goes in your “foundation” is as important to you as how it goes together.

I often look at this scripture that speaks of progress. 2 Peter 1:5-6 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,…

I was praying for a young lady I know. She is a doer. She finds her value in doing. I want to reach out and say, “learn to love yourself. Your value is found in who you are-not what you are or even what you do”. When we uncover that gem, doing moves from have to (Or perceived “have to”) to want to because I can.

Each day I look to uncover that piece of the treasure more and more in my life. I understand that I can prophesy or I can sell. But those are functions of who I am uniquely created to be and not who I am. How do you know this happens? What when you see people interact for the first time. Often the first questions are “what do you do?” Rather than “who are you?”

I wrote on assignments the other day and it was well read. (Thank you!) But my point in a lot of it was to figure out who you are before you begin to figure out what you can do.

I am a father, a businessman, a husband, a prophet. But my value is not found in those rather it is found in who I am. Yesterday, one of my young granddaughters, told my wife, “Where is my poppa? Can I go see him?” I am her grandfather and my value in her eyes is love for her. Poppa is simply a name to describe the function of love in my life for her. She is loved by me. That is the value in her life that allows for the establishment of ALL else.

Yesterday a friend and I were texting about a Facebook post someone had put up this week. We agreed on why we disagreed with it. “It’s not their gift” was the point. He said “mechanics are not ballet instructors”. Actually, that is not what he “said” but in the interest of not uncovering another it was the same “difference”. Mechanics function by fixing cars and ballet instructors function by teaching. His point was that my function as a prophet is my lane. I do not want to try to instruct ballet!

My value as one who is loved by God is where my value comes from. My function as one graced by God for the prophetic is valuable but not my value source. It is my function. (Do I know it works? Only this week I inquired of a man about a project and products he had never mentioned. His response to me was “you are reading my mind”.)

Allow people who know “how to build” or can see the need for various materials in your life.

For you, do not establish your value on what you can do. Base it on who you are in Him. Loved by God. Do we all not want to be known as the “disciple Jesus loved”? Just as I loved my grandchildren when they were small and could not return my love they had value. That value has not changed. They are just as much loved (Okay-probably more as my capacity love is increased.)today as they are growing as they were when they first began. Return to your first love…Whose love? His…for you!