How much are you worth?

How Much Are You Worth?


Is our worth on earth measured in terms on how much we earn, how many MBAs we have, how successful we are in our careers and how many properties we own? Sometimes we end up chasing after all the material things in our lives that we forget to acknowledge the most important thing – God’s unconditional love for each and every one of us.

In the Lord’s eyes, he considers each of us worthy and valuable. He loves us unconditionally and he delights in having created us. If the Lord sent his only son to die on the cross for our sins, surely we are worthy. If Christ died so that we might live in a heavenly home with God forever, surely we have value. If God created us, redeemed us, and desires to call us his children forever, surely we are of great importance to him.

How much are we worth? We are worth so much that God sent Jesus to die in your place on the cross. God’s perfect gift of salvation comes not by merit but by mercy, not by trying but by trusting. Jesus didn’t go to the cross because of millions of sinners – born and yet unborn – were in need of salvation. He went to the cross because of the sinful heart of man. Even if only one person is sinful, Jesus would have died on his behalf. Yes, that is the affirming fact of the Cross.

Jesus died for you and me. He died so that you and I might live forever in the presence of God whom the Father has forgiven and made whole spiritually by God’s great love and redemptive power. Jesus suffered willingly and went to the cross for our sake, to redeem us from sin and to restore our relationship with God our Father.

Are we worth something on the basis of our talents, gifts or accomplishments? No we are worth something because our worth was purchased with the ultimate price: the blood of Jesus. God believed in your worth to the point of sacrificing his only begotten Son (John 3:16). He sent his son to die for you because he considered you worthy of saving and worthty of living with him for all eternity. You are competent because God makes you competent. He sends his Holy Spirit to help you do anything he calls you to do.

Jesus paid the price for our redemption with his blood. Slavery to sin is to want the wrong things and to be in bondage to destructive desires. The ransom Jesus paid set us free from the worst tyranny possible – the tyranny of sin and the fear of death. Through his resurrection, he defeated the powers of death. Do we want the greatest freedom possible, the freedom to live as God truly meant us to live as his sons and daughters?

When we say the Our Father prayer, this prayer does call God our Father and boldly asks for the things we need to live as his sons and daughters. We can approach God our Father with confidence and boldness because Christ opened the way to heaven for us through his death and resurrection. We are called to submit our lives to God with the same obedience and love which Jesus demonstrated for his father.

Let’s us seek the Lord daily in prayers, read the bible and give thanks for the miracles we have seen in our lives. Thank you Lord for your unconditional love. Continue to fill us with your peace and love. Let us love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind.