As we have traveled in our 1971 VW bus, we have on occasion had people offer to buy it on the spot. Our bus is very unique as it has a hard top camper. The last time someone asked to buy it, I started thinking what is it worth to us? Well at this time it is our only house, our only car and has been in our family since before my husband and I were married. We went on our honeymoon in it, we have made three or more, long road trips in it all over the USA, our friends and family have helped us paint it up with Bible verses, and the lessons we’ve learned while driving are countless. In fact we just reached 50055.49 miles together.
So for us unless the offer would get us a house, a car and a job to sustain the house and car, we just can’t afford to sell the bus. It is God’s provision for us at this time..
Now today I was reading Matthew 6, where Jesus is giving the Sermon on the Mount, and He tells us not to worry about what we will eat, or what we will wear as we are of more value than the birds and the flowers. This got me thinking, that just like our bus, no-one could offer us what it is worth to us, just so we don’t put enough value on ourselves and others. God says He will provide our food and He will provide the clothing we need even as He provides for all of His Creation, but He goes farther by saying that we are of more value than the birds and the flowers. God has put so much time and energy and love into mankind, there is an unseen value in us. We are made in His image. We are worth saving to God. Just like the bus we have time, life and love that is unseen and not valued by others, so we are priceless to God. Don’t sell yourself short, only God can pay what you’re really worth! Ask Him to show you how much you’re worth…
Matthew 6:25-33 (NKJV)
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.