Aside from being a girl's best friend, a diamond's value is not based on what it can do, because the reality is, a diamond is an inanimate object and can do nothing for anyone.
It's value is based solely on what someone is willing to pay for it.
I have some great news for you today! YOU and I are worth far more than all the diamonds this universe can contain. God paid a higher price than all the wealth that a million years could bring. He gave His Son, Jesus to have a LOVE relationship with you and me!
HE ALONE determines your value.
Your husband does not determine your value.
Your ex-husband does not determine your value.
Your family does not determine your value.
Your friends (or lack of friends) do not determine your value.
Your employer (or ex-employer) does not determine your value.
When you have experienced rejection, abuse or abandonment, it's easy to put your value into the hands of those who hurt you. But, like the one stumbling through the wilderness, ignorantly stumbling over natural diamonds, they could not possibly know your worth.
Paul says in Ephesians 3:18 that Christ's love for us "passes all knowledge." In other words, Christ's love for us is so extravagant and so deep that there is no possible way we could fully comprehend His love. This love is the love that led Jesus to leave the majesty of heaven, to become a man of sorrows. To be reviled and persecuted. To be put to death in the most shameful manner on a cross. Who could possibly comprehend that?
No other time in the past or in the future would any love compare to that.
Back to Ephesians 3, Paul was praying for the Church of Ephesus that they would be rooted and ground in Christ's love and that if they could simply grasp how loved they are that they would experience the fullness of God.
When the enemy whispers in your ear that you are unloved or worthless, immediately capture the thought and replace it with the Truth of God's Word. "I AM LOVED WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE!" Write it on an index card. Carry it with you!
Oh that we would could catch even a glimpse of the breadth, and length and depth and height of God's love for us! When we do we are FOREVER CHANGED!
Take a minute and watch the video below. He's pursuing YOU. He loves you SO much!