God believes in you, whether you believe in him or not.

“Bring me a coin, whose image and inscription does it bear?” Luke 20: 20-26. He might as well have said, “Bring me a man, whose image and inscription does he bear?” The image and inscription of God is engraved in our inner consciousness. “Return to Caesar what belongs to him, and to God what is his.”

The lost coin never lost its original inscription or value. In all three parables in Luke 15 Jesus emphasizes that you cannot be lost unless you belong! We are not the invention of our parents. It is not our brief history on planet earth that introduces us to God; he knew us before he formed us in our mother’s womb! Jer 1: 5.

Every human life is equally valued and represented in Christ. He gives context and reference to our being as in a mirror; not as an example for us, but of us. The “ugly duckling” saw reflected in the water the truth that freed the swan! Ps 23 says, “He leads me beside still waters, and restores my soul”; or this can be translated, “by the waters of reflection my soul remembers who I am!”

You are the expression of the greatest idea that ever was! God wrote the script of your DNA when he knitted you together in your mother’s womb, the code is “Christ in you!”