"He Is Worth It"

"Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." Revelation 5:12

Since the storm came through I have had a terrible time sending out the Coffee Break. What normally takes me five minutes to send took me an hour the first night and almost two hours last night. I was up until 3:00 am trying to send it out. It would keep rejecting certain emails and I would have to go through the whole list to find the rejected one. I would resend it, it would time out, then it would reject a different email. It kept doing this repeatedly on all the mailing lists- all fifteen of them. But, praise be to God, I finally got them sent.

I told you all that to say, that it doesn't matter if it keeps me up half the night, or all night, to send these messages because I know they glorify God. Therefore, it's worth it because He is worth it. If someway, somehow, my being inconvenienced, losing sleep, being persecuted, being rejected, being uncomfortable, facing difficulties... whatever, can bring Him even an ounce of glory, it is worth it because He is worth it!

Paul said that he gloried in his tribulations because Christ was worth it. He gloried in his imprisonments, in his beatings, in his persecutions, in the marks that he bore in his body, if Christ could get any glory at all because of it. His rejoicing, even through the worst of situations, was because he counted Jesus worth it.

This is a main foundation of the gospel and the church has forgotten it. We certainly don't have the same attitude Paul had. Instead we whine, complain, murmur, get a bad attitude, get depressed, get frustrated, angry and full of self-pity if we are deprived of anything, if we have to go through any sort of persecution, if we have to face anything unpleasant, if we are rejected, if we don't have all we want or things don't go our way. Why? Because it's more about us than it is about Him.

The flip side of this is that Jesus thought you were worth it. Each time the whip went across His back, each time they spit in His face, each time they mocked Him, the rejection, the shame, the ridicule He suffered, the driving of the nails in His hands and feet, each piercing wound from the crown of thorns, every time that slapped Him, He said,"You are worth it". "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2)

Have a great day. May this once again be the cry of the church.. it's not about me, it's all about Him and He is worth whatever it may cost me.