VALUE WHAT’S YOURS
… So others can.
Once my son was loading his clothes into the washing machine, so I asked him to throw in his sisters’ clothes which were lying on the floor (beside the washing machine) when he is done.
No, he said.
But they are their Sunday clothes (it’s not okay for them to be on the floor), I pressed.
‘They do not value them, so, I don’t value them’.
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How about that?
Value what is yours… so others can.
Do not expect others to treat with value, what you keep as trash.
Prize your possessions, value your blessings–the people, places, things, gifts - the Lord has blessed you with. Do not belittle them.
The way you treat them is the way others will treat them.
Matthew 7: 6 advises us not to cast our pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot.
Value what is yours.
Treat it with respect.
God does. Zechariah 2: 8–‘For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye’.
He does not joke with you.
Value what is yours also.
[Extract from "Quiet Thoughts - Be inspired” © 2021]
By Helen Okore, the author of Quiet Thoughts.
Motivational and inspirational Christian books
helencruiseinspiration@gmail.com.
