you Are Priceless TODAY S SCRIPTURE I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made...

(Psalm 139:14, NIV) TODAY S WORD from Joel and Victoria A few years ago, I was having dinner with some people in their home. I noticed s ome paintings on the wall. To me, they weren t very impressive. In fact, some of t hem looked like they had been painted by a child. They were abstract and modern, and it appeared like paint had been just thrown here and there. But later that evening, the owner mentioned how he had paid over a million dollars for just one of those paintings. I looked at it again and thought, Wow! That is beautiful, is n t it? I found out it was an original, painted by the famous artist Pablo Picasso. What dawned on me that night was not so much what the painting looked like, but rath er who the artist was. A painting gets its value from its creator. In the same way, your value doesn t come from what you look like, what you do or w ho you know. You are a masterpiece! Your value comes from the fact that Almighty God created you. You are priceless! A PRAYER FOR TODAY Father, thank You for creating me and instilling value in me. I receive Your lov e for me. I receive Your strength and power to be all that You ve called me to be in Jesus name. Amen.