- It has been said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." To me, that means something's value can be what someone sees in it.
I also recently heard a story of an early Picasso painting that was discovered handing in the kitchen of a factory worker in Italy. It had been there for decades, the family unaware of its value.
Sometimes, our lives are like that. We do not realize our value--and we may not feel valuable at all. But Jesus has a different idea of what we are worth: in His opinion, we were worth dying for.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? (Mat 6:25-30 NIV)
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