Reforming the Feminine ContentFor What You’re Worth
The human body, in its basic elements runs about $4.50 according to ever-reliable internet sources.
If you were able to sell off organs on the black market, that value would go up considerably, but there are only so many organs that you can live without.
So what are we really worth?
From all that I can discern, in the simplest sense – we are worth Jesus. Not of course because we are anything special, but because that is the worth that God has placed on us.
Do I live like I am worth Jesus?
We have just passed Easter and Good Friday, and while our culture has made these to be about ham, chocolate and bunnies that lay colored eggs, that isn’t what it is about at all. This holiday, to me more than any other, is about Jesus. What His entire life on earth was about. Jesus lived a sinless life, bombarded with temptation, then He died in my place.
Do I live like I am worth Jesus?
This is a frustrating concept to grasp on my own, and even more so to explain to others, especially those who see themselves as having no worth at all.
“Don’t you understand?! Jesus lived, died and conquered death! You are His! He has begun a good work in you and will complete it! He is going to use you to glorify Himself! How amazing is that?!”
And yet, I often forget this about myself. I set my eyes on mediocre things, and aim low. After all, I know me.
I know that I all too often believe the lie that I am worthless, and I know many others believe it about themselves. But we’re not. Though God does not need us, He values us highly. And He is the one who determines what we are worth.
Psalm 8: “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”
Romans 8: “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.”
Psalm 103: “For he knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.”
Job 38: [God speaks to Job] “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding.”
John 3: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 6: “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”
It’s this tenuous relationship isn’t it? We have no worth apart from God - and we are worse than worthless apart from Christ. Yet he has chosen to value us. What a gracious, loving Father to adopt us crazy orphans and make us his children, and co-heirs with Christ.
Amen and amen Laurel! We are God’s workmanship–fearfully and wonderfully made. That’s pretty awesome.