Your patience, love, gentleness and self-control make you an exceptional mother. Your children will rise up to bless you. The Words of Blessing We Speak Should Express Great Value. Notice the lofty words Peter used to prove to the believers in Asia Minor that he placed high value on them. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Some people only speak words of value when there has been positive performance.
God highly values us in spite of our performance. When we have to perform to get a blessing we have this nagging uncertainty about whether or not we have really been blessed. Many years ago a man came to me for help. He had been leading a double life and was unfaithful to his wife. He realized his sin and confessed it to his wife.