An Almost Empty Peanut Butter Jar

Good morning, everyone!  This is my first post for 2025.  I hope everyone has a great day!

I peered into the nearly empty peanut butter jar and tried to decide if what was clinging to the sides and bottom would make just one more sandwich.  Could I scrape up enough to spread over one more piece of bread?  Was this scant amount worth saving?  

It's funny how the most random things can sometimes put our thoughts on a more spiritual plane.  My thoughts immediately turned to Christ.  Do you think our Savior ever questioned whether or not we were worth saving?  I don’t think He did - and that is totally unfathomable to me.  

Think about it.  Even in the Garden of Gethsemane when He prayed to God, He said "not My will, but Your will be done."  Christ knew what He was about to face -- had known from the time He began His ministry.  

He knew they were going to beat Him and spit on Him.  He knew they would mock Him -- shame Him.  Jesus could have stood up in that garden, said "Why bother?" and simply gone back to His home in heaven.  

Instead, Jesus chose to go through with it.  He chose to go through all the torture and pain -- to die on the cross -- for all of us.  As they crucified Him, Jesus even prayed "Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34 NKJV).    

We are much like that almost empty peanut butter jar - with barely anything to offer.  Yet Jesus Christ didn't throw us away.  Instead - even though He was equal with God - He emptied Himself and took on the form of a servant.  He was born in the likeness of men "and being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." (Phil. 2:7-8 ESV).     

Jesus definitely believed we were (and are) worth saving!!  What a wonderful thought!  His decision to save us was made "before the foundation of the world" (Ephesians 1:4). 

Jesus sees the potential in us.  He sees what we can be.  Figuratively speaking, Jesus sees not just a little bit left in the jar, He knows all the good things He can fill us up with.  And that makes all the difference for us.

Choose Jesus, because He has already chosen us.

Christ above all things - Robin