Undervalued

In 1989, a Philadelphia financial analyst discovered something unusual in an old picture he'd bought for $4 at a flea market in Adamstown, PA. He'd purchased the painting (an old, torn depiction of a country scene) because he liked the frame. He liked it even more once he discovered that a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence lurked within it. When he had attempted to detach the frame from the painting, the frame fell apart in his hands. He then found a folded document between the canvas and wood backing which appeared to be an old copy of the Declaration of Independence. A friend who collected Civil War memorabilia advised him to have it appraised. It was real; one of 500 official copies from the first printing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. (Only twenty-four similar copies were known to exist before this find, of which a mere three were privately owned.) This rare document was offered for sale by Sotheby's on June 4, 1991, and the lucky find fetched even more than had been anticipated: the $800,000 to $1.2 million estimate turned into $2.42 million by the sound of the gavel. Wow was that picture undervalued; what the man bought it for fell apart in his hands. Have you ever been undervalued? It may be to the point where you’ve come to believe yourself that you’re not really worth that much. You may say why not feel that way after the names I have been called, the rejection I’ve experienced, the failed relationships, and the way I’ve been treated? Wonder how many people walked by that so called worthless picture? Wonder how many people picked that picture up and almost purchased it? I remember a few days before basic training was over; my drill sergeant told me that I would never amount to anything! Why he said that I will never know but it was the best thing he could have said for on that day I told myself you just wait and see. We too make the same mistake we fail to look past what we are seeing and miss the potential of what is really there. A long time ago a Man namde Jesus picked out 12 men and if you were to look at them you would see nothing special but Jesus saw the potential and those men turned the world upside down! You know what they still are. Most saw them as poor fishermen and the Lord made that plain for they were always mending their nets.  Mark 1:19  And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. What did someone tell you? I can tell you they were wrong and if you go around the rest of your life feeling you are not of much value you’re not seeing  behind the frame where the 2.42 million are. Are you going to keep believing the lie and undervalue yourself? We will talk some more on Monday have a great weekend.