Dear me

pre·cious (adj.)
1. Of high cost or worth; valuable.
2. Highly esteemed; cherished.
3. Dear; beloved.
4. Affectedly dainty or overrefined.

I've been thinking this week about being precious to the Lord.

Often God communicates that to us: "You are precious to Me." Sometimes, our response is to look down at ourselves and yelp, "Yikes! I am precious! And we understand the term in its "affectedly dainty" interpretation which leads us to panic, "I could break so easily!" Fragile though humanity is, this is not the aspect of precious on which we are to concentrate, I think. Rather, because we are preciously valuable to Him, he holds us in a place of protection--as we who are created in His image, also give places of protection to those things that are valuable to us.