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Date Posted: 18:37:28 11/20/14 Thu
In this short piece we will try to weigh what a person is worth from the position the Bible takes on this subject. A good starting place is Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Well, that's good but it still doesn't tell us her a whole lot. How many rubies and what is the going price of rubies? The equation here is the worth of a virtuous woman to her husband and we might say you can't put a price on her worth to him. It is subjective and one man might esteem a woman of such qualities more or less than another.
In Matthew 10:31 we find that we are worth more than many sparrows in the eyes of our Lord. Gee, that's good to know but how many sparrows? I would really like to think that I was worth more than all the sparrows in the world, but again maybe I'm being a little vain in my estimation of myself.
Psalms 8:3-8 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; 8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
God sees man in a different light than we see ourselves. He sees man as worth entrusting His creation to and yet look what man has done to His creation. Surely our worth is diminished by our disregard for God's creation.
God evidently sees great value in man even with all his faults yet man often sees little value in the God who created him. Just think! Man valued the creator of the universe at only 30 pieces of silver, and this from His priests and spiritual leaders in Israel (Matt. 26:15). Things are a little skewed aren't they.
We find then a general rule at work when valuing something or someone. That rule is simply this, The value of a person or thing depends on what another is willing to pay. I have several items of sentimental value that you can't buy. No matter what you offer I will say no. To me they are priceless but to you they are worth only what you are willing to pay.
Herein we find a great truth revealed. Man as a whole finds little value in God yet God saw a great value in man. Mankind was and is a slave to sin and in the servitude to the Devil. Willingly or unwittingly he was and is in slavery.. The only way to free the slave is to purchase him and set him free.
Job 33:22-25 Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: 24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. 25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
Hosea 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
1 Timothy 2:5-6 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Yes friends, the man Christ Jesus has paid our ransom. He is the messenger and interpreter of Job 33:23. He will speak for us at judgment and will be our advocate and intercessor before God the Father. He will say of the redeemed I have purchased his freedom and paid the ransom with and in My blood.
Yes friends, Jesus saw in us great worth and value. He paid the ransom by dying in our place and by doing so paid a sin debt we could not pay. "Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow."
I do not know why God saw such value in sinful and fallen man. To have paid for us with a cruel death on Calvary shows the estimation of the value of those of us created in His image and likeness.
To those of us who have accepted His payment for our sin debt He has released us from the bondage that sin held us in. All I can say is thank you Lord. I can never pay you back but I would like to be found trying! Free from the burden of sin and now indebted through out eternity to the One who saw great value in me!
John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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