YOU ARE NEVER WORTHLESS

A lot of us deal with issues of self-worth. We don’t think good about ourselves because of the things we have done or the things that have been done to us. 

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?"

Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this."

He proceeded to crumple the $20 dollar bill up. He then asked, "who still wants it?"

Still the hands were up in the air.

Well, he replied, "what if I do this?"

And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

"Now who still wants it?"

Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson," he said, "no matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20." 

While that $20 bill could have been used for a lot of good, chances are it has seen a lot of bad.  If it could think and had a mind, it might have a bad conscious. Maybe it has been used to buy drugs, maybe it was stolen once and someone died over it. Perhaps it was used to fund a terrorist organization.  Maybe it has been used by impure things like to purchase a prostitute. Any number of things could have been done with this $20 bill. I could take that $20 bill and rip it, scar it, put marks on it that are unsightly. 

"Would you still want it?"  Of course you would.  

Because an authority higher than us gave it its value and nothing can take it away.

The same applies to us.  No matter what we have been through, no matter what we have done, we still have worth. It is in you. Nothing can take it away.

There are things I wish I could go back in time and redo, undo or just never do at all. Even though my own conscious and heart reminds me every day that I did them, I have to remind myself that something with greater authority than me gave me a self worth.

Choose to remind yourself of that everyday.