Worthless: December 3, 2013

TODAY’S WORD FOR TUESDAY DECEMBER 3, 2013.

WORTHLESS

DEFINITION:

No good; valueless; of no use; of no purpose.

SCRIPTURE:

A worthless man digs up evil, while his words are like scorching fire. Proverbs 16:27

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. I Corinthians 15:17.

KNOWLEDGE:

It seems that when things begin to go wrong in life, people begin to feel worthless and to think negatively. Feeling worthless drives a person to accomplish nothing. There is a lack of drive to accomplish even the smallest of tasks.  There is no desire to go places, see people, or to do things.

In the verse we have written above from Proverbs it reads that a worthless man digs up trouble. He goes on to say that a worthless man’s words are like a scorching fire. 

There are scriptures that remind us that worthless people have trouble with their tongue. Their words are abusive and unkind.  In Proverbs 6:12 we read that a worthless person is a wicked person who walks around with a perverse mouth. In James 1:26 we are told that if anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this person’s religion is worthless. May we remind you that purity of heart is often revealed by a controlled tongue with proper speech.

Those who feel worthless feel useless and become easy prey for Satan’s temptations to do evil. Without a purpose in life they have nothing to live for and they become reckless and do not care what happens to themselves or what others think. Under Satan’s control they will say and do all kinds of evil things.

In God’s sight no one is worthless. Genesis 1:27 reads, “God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” God certainly wouldn’t create something worthless in His likeness. God created man from a worthless bit of clay. Knowing that we are made in God’s image we can be assured we have worth in His sight. When God finished His creation He looked at it and said it was good. How can anyone dare to say what God has created is worthless?

We further know God considers us to have worth because He loves us and loves us so much that He gave His only Son to die a cruel death to pay the penalty for all our sins. Jesus died but He was raised from the dead conquering death so we could have eternal life.

And in the verse above from I Corinthians, Paul warns the people in the church of Corinth and all who question the resurrection of Christ that if Christ had not risen from the dead that their faith is worthless and they are still living in sin.

Those of us that believe in Jesus as our Savior should never have a reason to feel worthless. Knowing that God created us in His image and feels we are worth dying for should bring us to our knees in humble gratitude and filled with a desire to love Him and live for Him.

LEARNING:

Our memory verse for this week is found in II Corinthians 9:8.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything; you may have abundance for every good deed.

PRAYER:

Thank You, dear Lord that You loved us so much that You were willing to die for us. Thank You that because You love us we should not ever feel worthless. Give us a victorious attitude in all that we do knowing you created us and are with us guiding us over every mountain and through every valley.