I’m listening to a book on the drive back and forth to work called
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements. It’s a great book if you’re at all interested in chemicals and chemistry. The author mentions that some scientists are holding out for the possibility that Jupiter’s core might be liquid diamond with some Cadillac-sized solid chunks of diamonds floating around in it. Can you imagine?? And can you imagine what that would do to our diamond market if we could one day mine Jupiter’s core? Hundreds of years from now our great-great-great-great grandchildren might look back and laugh at old photos of us wearing diamonds in our ears and around our necks like we would today if we saw someone wearing a necklace and earrings scrunched together out of aluminum foil!
We love diamonds and pay high prices for tiny pieces of them because they are considered precious. If you look up the definition of “precious” you get words like “valuable”, “costly”, “esteemed”, “dear”, and “beloved.” All this brought me down the path of thinking about what I hold as most precious. The Sunday-school answer, of course, is “Jesus.” But do I really hold Him as the most highly esteemed and valuable thing in my life? Well, yes, I think I really do believe that in my heart and mind…. but I don’t always act like it, I’m afraid. I don’t act like it a lot, actually.
I’ve seen worship defined as a private act with two parts – 1)seeing what God is worth and 2)giving Him what He’s worth (i.e. our praise, honor, attention, etc.)
I understand the worth of diamonds, even though I own very few of them myself. The few that I have were given to me and those people (my husband, my Dad) were willing to pay for that worth. I’m convicted today that I don’t always truly worship our Lord reflecting what I know to be His true worth…
So many other things get my praise.
So many other things receive my honor.
So many other things capture my attention.
Today I’m praying for the ability to not only see the “worth” of Jesus as the most precious thing in my life, but to also honestly give Him the praise and honor and glory that He deserves in response.
Thanking God today for the fact that His “preciousness” and “worth” will never change, no matter what scientists one day discover on Jupiter!
From Revelation chapter 4:
9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.”
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