Love is the ultimate treasure, the highest placement of value.
God is Love.
Love placed all His value – the worth of His being – on us.
To say He loves us all, is to value us as equal value to Himself.
It is as if He is saying, All My being is yours and yours is Mine.
To devalue ourselves in any way is to have dishonest scales, with ‘deceitful weights’.
The wrong riches – the wisdom of man – will tip the scale.
The treasure & riches of wisdom and knowledge of God that He pours into us, doesn’t diminish His value or weight
The scales finally become true, and we rest in balance, aligned with Him. In our ‘right’-eous place.
Jesus entered fully into humanity’s lowest self-perception –
“a worm, and no man”-
Into that first man Adam.
Jesus became the last Adam, the last of that generation of warped perception that devalued us.
He was the last because He came to destroy it.
He did it to restore our value, so we could see His glory in us again.
1 Corinthians 13:2 says that without love, I am NOTHING.
This Greek word for nothing is oudeis which means ‘no man, no one, nothing’
Jesus went to the cross as the version of us in Adam.
He said He was ‘no man’ & ‘worm’ because He experienced our void of the understanding of love.
It caused Him to cry out as us in our despair – ‘my God my God why have you forsaken me?’
Without Love, my identity is lost in ‘no man’ land.
When I don’t possess the Truth – the image of the glory of God – as my identity, there IS nothing else.
Any other image is false, & is nothing.
Unfortunately I have known this despair, depressed & feeling alone, and invisible. Like a ‘no one’.
I’ve experienced this personally, and I believe it’s common to all man – that this is the plague of humanity.
That we have all felt this abyss of wondering if we’re really a ‘no one’.
Anyone bearing the false image – which is the image of ‘just a man’, ‘just flesh and blood’, ‘just a created thing’ – does not possess their own true identity – love.
Again, 1 Corinthians 13 expounds on the nothingness that comes from not taking on Love’s value….
There is a meaninglessness of everything else we ‘have’ when we don’t ‘have’ love.
Yet we do have Love!
We do have God.
He has never left us!
We are worthy of love because Love has always been our worth.
There has never been another image that would satisfy.
And how do we know this value?
And this Love image, how do we put it on?
We just believe – & let it rise from within.
We rip off the ‘worthless’ tag that’s suppressing it.
And we simply believe God when He says –
‘you are My beloved son/daughter – you make me happy as you are, My love’
Embrace this value! Without it you remain imprisoned by a beastly image – one that devours you inside….and the priceless treasure of you remains buried so you never experience it.
The Father is saying ‘Come FORTH’!
Come out of that grave of existence, & live!
Let the treasure come to the surface!
I see you, a treasure hidden, now it’s time to be seen.
To know you are seen.
You’ve never been invisible to Me!
You are the focus of My love.