give people value

One of the things that I love doing the most is helping people know their God given value. Literally, God values people. It is our job to help others, to build others, to encourage others and in so doing help people know they are valuable.

People matter to God. This has been proven over and over. Our great and gracious God puts the greatest value not on things, not on positions, but on the people that He deeply cares about.

There are a few things that stand out when you believe what God says about people. This is personal. This is unending truth that ought to be shared more and more but the people who are pursuing God.

Help people know their value but valuing, honoring and lifting the people God values.

Give value to the people God values.

Jeremiah 31:3 NLT

Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

Give honor to the people God honors.

Romans 12:10 NASB

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;

Serve those who God places around us.

Galatians 5:13 NASB

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Build what really lasts.

Romans 14:19 NASB

So then we pursue the things which make for peace and the building up of one another.

Give value to the people you encounter today and every day.

PS - today is our summer Red Cross blood drive at The Community Fellowship. Please come out between noon and 6 to give blood and save lives!

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