Do Yous Value What God Values?

When I was a picayune daughter inwards the early on 60's, I bought a Barbie doll for close $3. I was careful amongst my toys, together with then it was inwards bang-up status when I sold it inwards the 1990’s for $500. Pretty expert investment for a small-scale fry nether 10 years old.

It’s amazing how much people pay for rare together with pop items.

Mark McWire’s 70th home-run baseball game sold for over $3 million.

Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from the 1939 Wizard of Oz moving painting sold for 93,000 pounds.

Darth Vader’s helmet from The Empire Strikes Back sold for $115,000.

I wonder what God thinks when He sees these huge investments inwards things amongst no eternal value.

Scripture says the words of the Lord are to a greater extent than valuable, to a greater extent than desirable, to a greater extent than precious than the finest gilded (Psalm 19:7-11). Reading, studying together with memorizing them is the best investment nosotros tin make.

Do you lot know together with believe that truth? If so, what sort of investment are you lot making?
This devotion start published on Bible Love Notes inwards 2012 

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Who Changed The Cost Tags?

If soul snuck into a shop 1 black in addition to switched all of the cost tags, we’d right away recognize the error. 

But we’ve grown used to the switched cost tags inwards our world.

When Satan convinced Eve that her human relationship amongst God wasn’t equally valuable equally the benefits of a forbidden fruit, the values inwards our footing were turned upside down.

That’s why nosotros highly pay in addition to highly praise many immoral, selfish people spell ignoring many godly men in addition to women.

It’s why nosotros undervalue things that receive got difficult operate in addition to commitment (like marriage), in addition to overvalue shallow, temporary pleasures.

But Christians should endure dissimilar because “Everything inwards the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, in addition to the pride of life—comes non from the Father only from the world. The footing in addition to its desires transcend away, only whoever does the volition of God lives forever.” (1 John 2:16-17).

Let's assay daily to create the volition of our loving God!
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These 1-minute devotions likewise address our Christian values:
Do You Value What God Values?
We're Valuable Because of the Name

The Effects Of Culture

When I spotter a 1980's movie, I can't believe I ane time wore those huge shoulder pads, over-sized blazers, in addition to bulging pleated pants.

Our civilization is a powerful forcefulness influencing what nosotros wearable in addition to what nosotros think.

If yous mean value yous never allow civilization dictate your values, you're fooling yourself.

There conduct maintain been times inwards the history of diverse nations when biblical values were widely accepted past times the culture. We are non living inwards ane of those times.

When Christians mean value nosotros tin act, mean value in addition to hold off similar the footing in addition to nevertheless follow Christ, nosotros set ourselves inwards a unsafe position: 

"Do non honey the footing or anything inwards the world. If anyone loves the world, honey for the Father is non inwards them. For everything inwards the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, in addition to the pride of life—comes non from the Father simply from the world. The footing in addition to its desires transcend away, simply whoever does the volition of God lives forever." 1 John 2:15-17

Let's brand certain nosotros are transforming our minds, non conforming them to civilization (Romans 12:2). It's an absolute necessity if nosotros wishing to empathize God's will.
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