Numbers. It feels like everything is based on numbers these days. Every form I ever complete wants my social security number, driver’s license number, phone number, and… more numbers. The first thing my doctor wants to know? The numbers on the scales, the numbers on the cuff that hugged my arm, and the number of trips I’ve had around the sun since I last saw her.

There are numbers on the daily that I’m tracking too, if I’m honest. The numbers in my bank account, on the scales, and the ones on the tags at the store. I’m watching the numbers on the 7-day forecast and I would love to know who has the higher score in the game right now. How’s my kid really doing in Science?

You’re doing it too, aren’t you? I bet you know confidently how many heart eyes your picture has and not just once a day, but every time you stop to scroll. That number is important. You’re watching what’s trending right now and someone’s literally being paid to track that for you. The officer wants to know how many miles per hours you think you were going over and everyone wants to know how many more days are there until summer break.

The amount of money we donate to a cause determines our level of thank of you gift and the number on our ticket tells us which number gate we will enter into. All of our kids want to know how many more minutes they have to wait.

Numbers, numbers, numbers. EVERYTHING is measured and ran on numbers. Heck, even this laptop I sit at is running on ones and zeroes. 

How did we get here? Where everything is quantified instead of qualified. I have no idea! I wish I did,

Here’s what I do know though… You are so much more than a number! We both are. I’m afraid, however, that we are letting ourselves get so caught up in what our price point is that we’ve forgotten that we are actually PRICELESS! We’ve lost sight of the fact that God loves us so much that He doesn’t ask us how many more tears we will cry before we get back up in His strength. He does not care how many zeroes are on the check we wrote (does anyone still write checks?) for the offering plate. He could not be any less interested in some of the numbers that we seem to be most attracted to.

He just loves you and me for who we are because we are His! Here’s the math He wants us to know:

He gave His one Son for the whole world so that we could have salvation in Him. 

Gosh, friends. I’m hoping and praying that we can let that be enough for us again. That we can stop being so caught up in the numbers of approval from the world and just. rest. in. THAT!

Also, it wasn’t lost on me this weekend that my “newly renovated” room had shades that looked like this.