Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Stones

How often have we thrown verbal stones at others, or picked up the stones others have thrown at us and continually threw them at ourselves?

Anytime someone puts you down, calls you names or talks badly about you to others, they are throwing stones. When we play those words in our minds about ourselves, we have picked up the stones and started throwing them at ourselves.

So how do we stop throwing the stones at ourselves? We can begin by learning what God says about us, and look to Him to find our value and worth as a person.

We don't measure our value as a person by what others say about us. We measure our value as a person by what God says.

God says we are all sinners. Not just one person is a sinner, but all of us are, and in that we see that we are no better or no worse than anyone else in the eyes of God.

Despite the fact we are all sinners, God sent His Son to die on a cross for us. That is how much value God sees in us. He sent His Son to die, just so that we can have a relationship with Him.

God knows everything there is to know about us, even our inner most thoughts about others, and despite what others might say, you were not a mistake per Psalm 139.

Here are some other verses to look up and read at your leisure so that you may read for yourselves How much value God sees in us.

Matthew 5:48; 6:31-33; 7:11; 10:29-31
Genesis 1:27
Acts 17:26, 28
Jeremiah 1:4-5; 29:11; 31:3; 32:40; 33:3
Ephesians 1:11-12
Psalm 71::6
John 8:41-44
1 John 4:16; 3:1
Zephaniah 3:17
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
2 Corinthians 1:3-4; 5:18-19
Psalm 34:18
Isiah 40:11
Revelation 21:3-4
1 John 2:23
Romans 8:38-39

Knowing what God says is so much more important than worrying about what other people think about you, As God is our creator.

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