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This comes from a conversation I had with Him on my rock this afternoon…I hope you’ll read it because it might just be for you 🙂

“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose…” -Jim Elliot

We are all worshipers, but the question is what or who do we worship with the life given us?

All investments not made into people, God and His kingdom will someday be all for naught.

Since investing in people is one of the most tangible and rewarding things we can do with the time given us, I started thinking about how I would like to invest in people and this is what He put on my heart…

           If I want to teach, I must first be teachable…

                     If I want to mold others, I must first be moldable…

                                If I want to love much, I must first be lovable…

                                            If I want to be intimate, I must first be vulnerable…

In each situation, I must first embody what I will ask of another. In order to teach well, I must be able to learn from all kinds of teachers. I must be able to humble myself and learn from children and may have to seek out the wisdom of elders. However, I must also learn from failures, victories, hurt, joy, pain, health, sickness, silence, creation, lives, death, and everything else under the sun through every season I walk through…I have to be ever learning if I want to ever have anything worth teaching another.

This concept is true about each of the above and many more, but I wanted to take a second and look at the third one. If I want to love much, I must first be lovable. I think deep down more people struggle with whether or not they’re lovable. Many pursue ways to make themselves more lovable to others. Yet it comes down to whether or not you’re willing to ACCEPT that you’re already loved and deemed lovable. That means you have to let go of your vice grip on your perception of yourself because whether or not you are lovable to someone else is not up to you! I’d enjoy it if you really let that concept seep in because identity, confidence and value are three things that are most shockingly lacking within Americans in general as well as the church!

Quite possibly our strongest desire is to be loved and to love completely and fully. It drives, pushes and prods our lives in all sorts of directions…yet, if we want to love well we need to accept His love for us well and in order to do that we have to believe what He says about us is true…we have to exchange our value of ourselves with His value of us…

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. -Hebrews 12:2

His joy was in the value of what He was getting…not in the price He was paying for it…guess who that value was?