LIKE a HUNDRED DOLLAR BILL

Like a hundred dollar bill, we may be valuable, but the question is:  Are we usable?  A hundred dollar bill that is lost or even in your pocket is still worth a hundred dollars, but it does not prove its value until you find it or take it out of your pocket to use it. The value of the hundred dollar bill only has real value when it's in your hands ready for a transaction.Personally, I was once a lost “hundred dollar bill" who would claim "In God I trust," but who was living without trust in God. And like a billfold, I was holding value but I was not allowing God to use me. I was stuck in the “pocket of complacency.”  And from that same vein, one may believe he is worth this “monetary” significance in his own eyes, but without placing that "money” back into God’s hands for His use, the worth and value becomes paper-thin. Temporary.  I read recently that JFK’s golf clubs sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Obviously, the golf clubs themselves were not worth that much, but because they were once in the hands of a former President, their value became inflated tremendously. It wasn’t the clubs, but the hands that held the clubs.Likewise, when we begin to understand our worth in God’s eyes and commit to giving Him back--for His use--what He gave us, then it is in His hands that we will be properly valued and used. You see, all of us have value, but not everyone allows their life to be used by God. Clearly, the person of my past fits that bill, but I thank God that He found it necessary to "foot the bill" of my guilt and shame by giving me His undeserving grace. And that's what I'm worth--appraised righteous because of the sacrifice of Jesus!Thus, with such value placed upon us and the deposit of the Holy Spirit within us, let us place our lives back in God's hands for His purpose. And like the concept behind JFK’s golf-clubs, it's not about our worth and value on our own, but whether or not we place ourselves back in God’s hands for His spending use.