Garage Sale

This weekend my wife is hosting one of her semi-annual Garage Sales. She puts in a lot of work for about 3 days in preparing for these events.

As I browsed the objects laying out a funny thought came to me. At some point we were glad to own almost all of the objects in the sale. If you ignore the odd christmas gifts, or strange family hand me downs, most of the things we saw in a store some where and thought "I have got to have that"

Now they sit on card tables priced at a quarter a piece. We are begging people to pay bottom dollar to unload this once precious treasure from us. And if we wind up not selling it, we are just going to give it away. Some of the items, I'm sure Goodwill will even toss out.

What happened between the time of purchase and now? Styles and tastes change, but so do attitudes. At one point we had to have it, and now its just taking up space.

This is another human created flaw. God doesn't discard what is His. As a matter of fact, he re-purchased us. Our value to Him never changes.

We can forfeit ourselves and try to hide in the back of the closet, but eventually if we begin to see just a bit of self-value, and put ourselves out on that card table, He will buy us and treat us as new again.

I just hope I'm not a Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish.