If you’ve ever felt like you’re disposable or un-valuable, let’s take a look at someone who’s been there and lived to tell the story in victory over it. His name is Jesus:o)
Jesus lived for 33 years. The last three years of His life is what has been recorded in the Bible. He chose 12 disciples and they gave up everything to follow Him. All of whom were witnesses of the miracles, signs, and wonders of Jesus. Everything Jesus did during His three-year ministry couldn’t be recorded because the world itself could not contain the books if they were written, (John 21:25).
“Then Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver. From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.” Matthew 26:14-16 NLT
Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve disciples as well as the Treasurer for Jesus’ ministry. He’s famous throughout history for his betrayal of Jesus. Judas was paid a slave’s ransom for Jesus’ delivery to the Pharisees. The Pharisees were a Jewish legalist sect that operated exclusively from the law of Moses; they wanted to kill Jesus. Since Jesus was so regular-looking, Judas was to kiss His cheek so the Pharisees arrested the correct man they paid a slave’s price to crucify.
“But if the ox gores a slave, either male or female, the animal’s owner must pay the slave’s owner thirty silver coins, and the ox must be stoned.” Exodus 21:32 NLT
Judas’ actions said that he didn’t value Jesus. The man he witnessed opening blinded eyes, casting demons out of people, healing the sick, raising the dead, healing paralyzed people, multiplying 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread to feed well over 5,000 people leaving a basket of leftovers for each disciple, etc.
Now, according to Mullenscoins.com, 30 shekels of silver in Bible days contained about 14 grams of silver each x 30 coins x $0.47 per gram of silver = $197.40 today. If this betrayal took place in 2019, Jesus’ life cost less than a 72-inch flat-screen!
To experience any form of abuse can possibly result in the victim feeling unworthy or unvalued. As I read through this passage in the scriptures, it made me remember my earliest memory of feeling un-valuable. I was perhaps 7 or 8 when the molestation began. This person would invite me in like I was important, abuse me, and then reject me violently each time. It made me feel exactly like trash. Trash always begins as something needed or wanted, used, and discarded. The milieu this created was impossible to overcome on my own. After several encounters with Jesus and skilled Christian Counselors, I’m on a mind-blowing journey of healing and restoration as if it never happened:o)
Tying it all together now…
We are so valuable to God, that He freely gave Jesus to be slain in order to pay the price of our sins so that we can spend eternity with Him. In Jesus’ 33 years He felt every emotion that we could ever experience. So when we cry out to Him about our hardships and traumas, He knows what we’re talking about has the ability to fix it!
Y’all be blessed, Jesus loves you and I do too:o)
Gina
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