Five Minute Friday: "Nothing"

Thanks to Lisa-Jo Baker at Five Minute Friday for the prompts.

 

Without Him I could do nothing
Without Him I?d surely fail
Without Him I would be drifting
Like a ship without a sail.

- Without Him.  Lyrics by Mylon Lefevre

 

Nothing: (definition 5) - something or someone of no importance or significance

 

GO!

 

I saw a quote on Joyce Meyer's Facebook page that said:  "Don't determine your worth and value by how other people have treated you."  I had a very hard time with that quote.  Yes, in God's eyes, I am redeemed by the blood of Christ.  That's wonderful.  However, how I get along on this earth is determined by my worth and value to others.

 

If a person determines that I am worthless to them, then to them I am nothing.  I have no place or influence in their life.  I can handle that better than having the worth of a mere thing in someone else's life.  That's the worst kind of nothing--I work and work as a machine, but my humanity is erased.  Both hurt, but that's worse.

 

I love the lyrics to the song Without Him.  It was the first thing I thought of when I heard what the prompt was.  Without Christ, in heaven I am nothing, lost, and destined for eternal separation from God.  Thanks be to Him that in His eyes I am something.  The question is, what do I do here on earth to bring that "somethingness" to a world that thrives on showing people how much nothing they are?

 

FULL STOP!