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MONDAY JANUARY 11


YOU HAVE VALUE

READ:
1 Corinthians 6:20
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You were bought
at price
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After my mother-in-law died, my wife and I discovered a cache of US Indian Head pennies in a dresser drawer in her apartment. She wasn't a coin collector, as such, but she lived in the era when these pennies were in circulation and she had accumulated a few.

some of these coins are in excellent condition; others are not they are so worn and tarnished you can hardly see the imprint. All bear the stamp "One Cent" on the opposite side. Although a penny these days has little value and many consider them useless, this one-cent coin would have bought a newspaper in its day. And collectors still find value in them, even those that have been battered and abused.

Perhaps you feel tarnished, worn, old, or out of circulation. Even so, God finds value in you. The Creator of the universe wants you__not for your mind, your body, your clothes, your achievements, your intellect, or your personality, but because you are you! He would go any distance and pay any price to possess you )1 COR. 6:20).

In fact He did. He came down to earth from heaven and purchased you with His own blood (ROM. 5:6, 8-9). That's how much He wants you. You are valuable in His eyes, and He loves you. ____David Roper

**As I think about Your love for me, Father, I wonder with amazement
how You could love someone like me__and I praise You.
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Christ's death is the measure of God's love for you.

*******************************Today's Bible Reading __ Romans 5:6-11*****************************
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still
powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will
anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good
person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God
demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much
more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For
if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him
through the death of his Son, how much more, having been
reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is
this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ
through whom we have now received reconciliation.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
The word gospel means "good news," and
Romans 5 is the very heart of that gospel. Paul makes clear that
the motive of the gospel is that God loves us despite our sins (v.8).
The need for the gospel is because of our sin and rebellion (vv. 8, 10).
The act of the gospel is found in Christ's sacrificial death for
the undeserving (vv.8-10). The result of the gospel is restored
relationship with the God who created us for relationship with
Him (v.10). That is certainly good news! ___Bill crowder