Dear Father, I've studied the attitude of humans toward becoming or successfully acquiring things, having realized the thin line that exists between appreciating something and finding our sense of worth in it. For instance, an intelligent person can appreciate his intelligence and put it to use, but there becomes an issue when he derives his identity from being known as the smartest person in the room, such that his worth rises and falls with retaining that position. This applies also to matters such as wealth, fame, beauty, ministry, jobs, or relationships. A way to distinguish appreciation from worth based acquisitions is to respond to the question: If this were taken away from me, would I lose a blessing, or would I lose myself? Today, I came across a scripture which says: "Thus saith the LORD, Let neither the wise, mighty, nor rich man glory in his wisdom, might, or riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me..." In this scripture, You tried to reveal the danger of losing ourselves to things when our confidence is tied to something other than our relationship with You. Yet how many of us can confidently respond in the affirmative to the first question? And how many glory in our knowledge of You? The idea is that the pursuit becomes intense when acquisitions are tied to self-worth. And how self-fulfilling it would be if that acquisition itself were our knowledge of You? Yet, subconsciously, we glory not in what we know about You, but in all we've acquired about things. Translations; Slide 1: English Slide 2: French Slide 3: Bengali Slide 4: Hindu Slide 5: Urdu #LetterstoGod #worth #glory #relationship #value