BBD 04.18.10 How Much Are You Worth? (Classic - Updated)

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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

18 April 2017

How
Much Are You Worth?

…glory,
honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also
to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. - Romans 2:10-11 NKJV.

My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,
with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold
rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy
clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to
him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,”
or, “Sit here at my footstool,” have you not shown partiality among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts? - James 2:1-4 NKJV.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love
your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit
sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. - James 2:8-9 NKJV.

In a scene from the modern west, men in a four wheel drive vehicle are hunting
down executive chairs. That's right, chairs! There are chairs rolling
everywhere. There are small chairs and large chairs. The scene ends with the
hunters roping and hauling in one of the larger chairs. The scene is from an
executive employment service TV ad which claims they only have listings for
100k+ people, and for companies that only want 100k+ people. In other words, if
on your resume your salary history indicates you make less than $100,000 per
year do not apply to that executive employment service. They do not want you.
Go away little chairs. You are beneath the level that they consider being of
importance.

For billions of people in this world their lifetime earnings will not add up to
$100,000. Billions more do not earn, and never have earned $100,000 per year. I
am definitely in that category. Does that mean that those of us who have never
reached the 100k+ level of earnings per year are somehow less valuable, of less
worth, than those who earn more? Perhaps in the eyes and value system of one
executive employment service and of people whose goal in life is to make more
and more money we are worth less. However, in God's value system every human
being is of the same worth, whether we are rich or poor: “For there
is no partiality with God (Romans 2:11).”

Does the spiritual fact that God is impartial mean that there will never be
favoritism in the church? No, if you have attended church for a year or more it
is likely that you have observed favoritism. In every church that I have
attended or pastored, there have been instances of favoritism. Does this make
it right? Of course not! There were instances of favoritism in the early church
as seen in Acts chapter six with Jewish widows receiving better
treatment than Greek widows. The church moved to correct that mistreatment and
favoritism. It is the example that we need to follow. If you are personally
involved in favoritism you need to try to change. If you see others involved in
favoritism, you need to try to help them see their need to change, and encourage
them to do so.

The elimination of favoritism from the church, and the world, will never be
completely accomplished as long as the world is the world as we know it now; and
the flesh is still the flesh, and the devil is still roaring seeking whom he
may devour. However, each of us can pray; and we can seek to eliminate
favoritism in our lives, in the church, and in the world around us. Our goal in
regard to impartiality should be the goal expressed by our Lord in the model
prayer, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
(Matthew 6:10).”

How much are you worth? You are worth so much that Jesus
came down from the glories of Heaven to suffer and die a horrific death on the
cross – for you!

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now available
for download from Amazon. The
Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat your addiction that
actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

18 April 2017

How
Much Are You Worth?

…glory,
honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also
to the Greek. For there is no partiality with God. - Romans 2:10-11 NKJV.

My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,
with partiality. For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold
rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy
clothes, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to
him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor man, “You stand there,”
or, “Sit here at my footstool,” have you not shown partiality among yourselves,
and become judges with evil thoughts? - James 2:1-4 NKJV.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love
your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit
sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors. - James 2:8-9 NKJV.

In a scene from the modern west, men in a four wheel drive vehicle are hunting
down executive chairs. That's right, chairs! There are chairs rolling
everywhere. There are small chairs and large chairs. The scene ends with the
hunters roping and hauling in one of the larger chairs. The scene is from an
executive employment service TV ad which claims they only have listings for
100k+ people, and for companies that only want 100k+ people. In other words, if
on your resume your salary history indicates you make less than $100,000 per
year do not apply to that executive employment service. They do not want you.
Go away little chairs. You are beneath the level that they consider being of
importance.

For billions of people in this world their lifetime earnings will not add up to
$100,000. Billions more do not earn, and never have earned $100,000 per year. I
am definitely in that category. Does that mean that those of us who have never
reached the 100k+ level of earnings per year are somehow less valuable, of less
worth, than those who earn more? Perhaps in the eyes and value system of one
executive employment service and of people whose goal in life is to make more
and more money we are worth less. However, in God's value system every human
being is of the same worth, whether we are rich or poor: “For there
is no partiality with God (Romans 2:11).”

Does the spiritual fact that God is impartial mean that there will never be
favoritism in the church? No, if you have attended church for a year or more it
is likely that you have observed favoritism. In every church that I have
attended or pastored, there have been instances of favoritism. Does this make
it right? Of course not! There were instances of favoritism in the early church
as seen in Acts chapter six with Jewish widows receiving better
treatment than Greek widows. The church moved to correct that mistreatment and
favoritism. It is the example that we need to follow. If you are personally
involved in favoritism you need to try to change. If you see others involved in
favoritism, you need to try to help them see their need to change, and encourage
them to do so.

The elimination of favoritism from the church, and the world, will never be
completely accomplished as long as the world is the world as we know it now; and
the flesh is still the flesh, and the devil is still roaring seeking whom he
may devour. However, each of us can pray; and we can seek to eliminate
favoritism in our lives, in the church, and in the world around us. Our goal in
regard to impartiality should be the goal expressed by our Lord in the model
prayer, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven
(Matthew 6:10).”

How much are you worth? You are worth so much that Jesus
came down from the glories of Heaven to suffer and die a horrific death on the
cross – for you!

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
18 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now available
for download from Amazon. The
Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat your addiction that
actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

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