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In the Kingdom, every person has value. We won’t appreciate anyone’s value if we don’t appreciate our own. Our confusion is understandable. In the words of Casting Crowns (watch the video<\/a>) \u00a0“I am a flower quickly fading;\u00a0Here today and gone tomorrow;\u00a0A wave tossed in the ocean;\u00a0A vapor in the wind. In the totality of creation and the eternalness of time, we ain’t much.<\/p>\n

You have to wonder: \u00a0Who am I, that the Lord\u00a0of all the earth would care to know my name; would care to feel my hurt.\u00a0Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star would choose to light the way for my ever wandering heart. We are caught in the cosmic confusion between our\u00a0insignificance and the attention the Creator give us. We can vibrate between humility based on plain worthlessness and vanity formed by Godly focus.<\/p>\n

Balance is essential. We need to understand not just our value, but the reason for it.\u00a0Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done.\u00a0Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are. We’ve done nothing valuable. He’s done it all. Our value is based not on us, but on Him.<\/p>\n

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We have value. In a scary world, we can walk without fear. We have purpose and mission and the means to succeed in both, because of Him.<\/p>\n

I am Yours
\nWhom shall I fear
\nWhom shall I fear
\n‘Cause I am Yours
\nI am Yours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Kingdom, every person has value. We won’t appreciate anyone’s value if we don’t appreciate our own. Our confusion is understandable. In the words of Casting Crowns (watch the video) \u00a0“I am a flower quickly fading;\u00a0Here today and gone tomorrow;\u00a0A wave tossed in the ocean;\u00a0A vapor in the wind. In the totality of creation and the eternalness of time, we ain’t much. You have to wonder: \u00a0Who am I, that the Lord\u00a0of all the earth would care to know my name; would care to feel my hurt.\u00a0Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star would choose to light the way for my ever wandering heart. We are caught in the cosmic confusion between our\u00a0insignificance and the attention the Creator give us. We can vibrate between humility based on plain worthlessness and vanity formed by Godly focus. Balance is essential. We need to understand not just our value, but the reason for it.\u00a0Not because of who I am, but because of what You’ve done.\u00a0Not because of what I’ve done, but because of who You are. We’ve done nothing valuable. He’s done it all. Our value is based not on us, but on Him.   We have value. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-the-spiritual","post_format-post-format-chat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8742\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicksigur.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}