You can't plant me in your penthouse

Elton John sang a song about a kid from the farm transported to the big city by a rich girl who was looking for nothing more than a toy. Maybe you didn’t know that’s what the song “Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road” is about. 

I hadn’t head the song in year but woke up early one morning recently with a line on my mind from it. “Maybe you’ll get a replacement, there’s plenty like me to be found…”

Maybe you’ve felt that way before. If you are gone they’ll just get a replacement. I once preached in a place where an elder said: “Preachers around here are a dime a dozen, if you leave we’ll have another one next week.” 

He was right on the second part but wrong on the first. If you’ve been feeling like that I want to assure you, you are worth much more than your salary or that false teaching. 

"Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or  gather into barns— and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" Matthew 6:26.

And while you know that to be true it’s rather generic. So consider the Spirit’s Words of Romans 10:14-15 “How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?  And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!’” (emp: dj).

The Lord considers you, your work, the energy you expend, the passion you put into your work - to be valuable. So, a member, an elder, a naysayer may have you feeling down. Remember, to the Lord you are worth more