Price of Worth

“Things of greatest worth require from us things of greatest price.”

Loren Thornburg

Worth can be defined as anything successful to repay any effort, trouble or expense.  This means that anything of worth requires, effort, trouble or expense.  We often want one without the other.  We want the things of worth but we don’t want it to require too much effort and certainly not much trouble.  So often times we give up and give in to that which the process requires of us.  Yet, what if those hard places are not only reaching us towards our goals but also forming us into the people we need to be in order to maintain it?  So then, the hard places are never wasted, they are never not worth it for they are attaining for us something so much bigger than we ever thought.  Things of greatest worth will repay us for all that they required from us.  It may not be the way we thought, but it will never be wasted.

“…he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” 

Hebrews 11:6 NKJV

God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.  Sometimes seeking God requires more from me than I want to give.  Yet, what I forget is that God is after something so much greater than my comfort, He is after my freedom.  Freedom isn’t true freedom until it’s total.  It requires all of me which is often painful.  This pain is not punishment, it’s pursuit.  You’re being pursued because you’re worth it.  He sees you: every effort, every tear, every heartache.  Nothing gets missed.  He sees it and He rewards it. Nothing is wasted.  Every time you seek Him it’s worth it.  For it’s always worth it to diligently seek the One of greatest worth who says, ‘You are worth it.’