Do You Agree?

I don’t know if it was true, but I read a story about a dad who bought his daughter an old car for her graduation. He told her to take it to a dealer, a pawn shop and a car club to see how much she could sell it for. The dealer offered her $10,000, and the pawn shop only offered $1,000; but the car club offered her $100,000! He explained to her that to the right person, the car is very valuable. 

I related to this story because my husband has a ’69 Camaro that has been restored and highly modified. The time, effort and money that has gone into that car makes it a lot more valuable than what a regular insurance company might insure it for. To them, it’s just a car, over 50 years old, and not worth much. There are classic car insurance companies that understand this and they sell a policy called “agreed value.” They insure the car for an agreed amount, understanding that if the car was in an accident, it would be expensive to replace it.  

In this story, the dad was using the car to explain to his daughter how valuable she was; that he didn’t want her to go off to college and settle for some boy who didn’t treasure her the way he did. God created us with gifts making each one of us valuable. To Him, we are as precious as gold, and to the right person, we can be held dear. But sometimes we settle for the showroom special or the highest offer at the pawn shop just because we’re feeling adored and happy that someone is paying attention to us. That is not the kind of relationship your Father wants for you. He wants you to be in an “agreed value” relationship; a covenant with another who sees your value the same way He sees it…as precious as gold.