Dumbo

When I was a little boy I had a stuffed elephant named Dumbo who went everywhere with me. But as the years passed, he lost one of his eyes, got dirtier and his color faded. After I was married, my mom returned him to me. When our daughter Jill came along, my wife and I gave Dumbo to her and it was love all over again.

Jill is now grown with a child of her own and still has Dumbo prominently displayed. He doesn’t look very good and his market value is probably zero, but I doubt that Jill would sell him for any price. Dumbo is still loved?not because of his looks, but because of his value to her. She values Dumbo because of his relationship to her father.

And isn’t that the way we want to be loved? Not because of our looks, but because of our relationship to God the Father. He gives us value.

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