More Value Than Many Sparrows - Repost

Luke 12: 6-7

6 "What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them. 7 And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to God than a whole flock of sparrows.

If we truly believe we are more valuable to God than any other thing in creation, we are able to lean upon God for guidance, help, strength, courage, determination and most importantly grace.

One way to think about these verses is this: What stronghold--false god--in your life can make that claim upon your life? Does your stronghold offer you the assurance that you are intrinsicly valuable and valued beyond compare? Do our strongholds uplift, encourage, embrace, renew and restore us? Or do they deplete us, wear us down and wear us out? Do they suck the very life out of us and keep us from becoming the amazing, incredible creations God thought of long ago, before the beginning of time.

Having thought of us so long ago, he planned the color of our eyes, our height, whether we were to be creative and artistic, or a concrete, fact-oriented creature. He decided when we would be born, and to whom, and where, and how. And of course, before all that was finalized, he thought of WHY were to be born.

We are his beloved. The very hairs on our heads are all numbered. We have a unique, divinely planned purpose on this earth. We cannot fulfill that purpose if we are separated from God because of the strongholds that limit us.

Ask God today to help you see yourself as the person He created you to be. Beg Him to refine you and mold you, shape you and embrace you as you strive to fulfill his plan for your life.

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Romans 8:28-39 

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:

"For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.