VALUE (noun)-
1.relative worth, merit, or importance.
2. monetary or material worth, as in commerce or trade.
3. the worth of something in terms of the amount of other things it can be exchanged for.
4. estimated or assigned worth.
I was meditating on this concept yesterday. Thoughts of times I have tried to assign my own value or worth as well of times I have allowed others to define my sense of value came springing to my mind. How easily we can go from being confident and feeling valuable to a feeling of worthlessness by hearing a harsh or critical word. Everyone has some desire to feel valuable. No one wants to be alone or unimportant. On some level we all desire to feel needed, smart, or like our lives have made some difference in the world around us. This deep rooted drive to have value assigned to us can make us needy people-pleasers as we seek our value from human relationships. We can also be on the other side of the spectrum in a flash assigning a value or worth on another person, fetus, drug addict......you see where this is going.
I have heard countless times the saying, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Value is the same way. Just look on an EBAY auction and watch people try to assign worth to something. The seller wants to get all they can, the buyer wants to get it for the least possible. They are at odds with each other, both sides looking at it from their vantage point. I do not think people can be unbiased judges of worth. We need an outside perspective and who better than the One who created you in the first place?
Worth or value of a soul is not determined by a person, unless that person is Christ. Defining value with our definition above and through the eyes of God gives you the relative worth of your life, merit or importance, assigned worth of your soul in terms of an amount exchanged for you....you were so valuable to God that He sent His only Son to die for you and pay the ultimate price, the maximum amount- all of it -to restore you to Him. That makes you very valuable, a person created with much worth and importance to the Creator of the Universe.
The world tries to devalue life, get you to devalue yourself, or take what is valuable in God's sight and make it depreciate. We cannot not afford to believe the lies.
A person's value is not determined on another person's appraisal.
A person's value is determined by the price Jesus was willing to pay....
and He paid it ALL for YOU!!!!
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
1 John 3:16, "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
Deuteronomy 6:7, "For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession."
Matthew 6:21, "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
1 Peter 3:3-4, "Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight."
Amos 4:13, "He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man, he who turns dawn to darkness, and treads the high places of the earth— the LORD God Almighty is his name."
Psalm 139:13-18a, "For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from youwhen I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from youwhen I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to O God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand."
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