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                                                      Matthew 10: 30-31
                                 "But the very hairs of your head are all numbered"
                                         "Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more"
                                                  "value than many sparrows"

          Visualize the vault of God!  In this vault He keeps the precious things of eternity.  In His vault are all those people who mean so much to Him.  In this file is your person-hood.  There is a list of pertinent statistics; when you were born, when you will die, a list of your strengths, a list of your charitable acts.  There
also is listed the number of hairs on your head.  Across the front of this file God has stamped the word mine.  Under the word mine is the signature of God.  Jesus said that God, meticulous in keeping track of His world, has numbered the sparrows.  Therefore, we are to rejoice, for we are worth more than many sparrows.
         In that all we mean to God, why do we so often mean so little to ourselves?  Low self-esteem afflicts almost everyone at one time or another. Whenever we suffer from it, should we not stop and ask ourselves, Have we any right to feel badly about something that God feels so good about?  To be loved with such overwhelming love as God sheds upon us makes our not loving ourselves a strong disagreement with God.  When we disagree with God, are we not acting as though God has made a mistake?
        Is there evidence that we are wrong in not loving ourselves and that God is right in not agreeing with us?  Of course there is.  There stands the cross of Christ!  Here is the opinion of God.  "I love you.  If you do not love yourself, you fail to understand the day my only begotten Son died there on Calvary.  In Gethsemane, the night before His cross, He would have chosen another evidence that He might honor the fact that I (God) was in love with you.  There was no other way.  Study the dying of my Son. Can you still feel worthless?  Consider what you are worth to me.  His hands bear the mark of that great expense my Son and I both paid.  Are not two sparrows sold for a penny, and you are worth much more than sparrows."

                                              May God Bless You
                                               And Your Families

                                                                    Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                                                    The Cross Life Ministry