Value Subtracted

Are you not much more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:26

This verse hit me the other day. I had never thought that some of my problem is the fact that I do not really believe I am valuable. That I have value. At least to those beyond my very immediate family (ie Mom and Dad). I struggle with this thought even with my wife.

In college my favorite word was "iconoclast". Which is idol crusher. I was going to prove to others they had a reason to hate me. And I was successful.

For the last 2 years God has been crushing my idol of selfworship. He's shown me that what I wanted from others was not grounded in Reality. People do value me, just not in the way I want.

Idols are not idle, they die hard.

Amen.