How Much Are You Worth?
By Allan E. McNabb
The human body is worth about $5.00. It’s composed of inexpensive
things like oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen.
Your soul, on the other hand, is valued far above the components of
your physical body. Jesus asks, “For what will it profit
a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul” (Matt.
16:26)? Thus, your soul is of greater value than your body.
Jesus Left Heaven to Save You
It’s ironic that Jesus left heaven so you could go to heaven. He
gave up (for a period of time) the very thing you are striving to obtain. “Although
He existed in the form of God,” he didn’t “regard equality
with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself” (Phil. 2:6-7).
When you calculate your value, you must consider that Jesus left heaven
to save you. What do you think that’s worth?
Jesus Lived as a Bond-Servant to Save You
After Jesus left heaven, He took “the form of a bond-servant” (Phil.
2:7). Jesus didn’t come to earth to live as a king served
by other people. He came to earth to serve (Rom. 15:3), living
as a slave to save you. If you could pay someone to leave heaven
and live as a slave, what would it cost?
Jesus Died on the Cross to Save You
After Jesus walked upon the earth and preached the gospel, He humbled
Himself and died upon the cross (Phil. 2:8). He “bore our
sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live
to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed” (1 Pet.
2:24).
In Hebrews, we learn how difficult this was for Jesus —“In
the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with
loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death” (Heb.
5:7).
What value should we place on a soul, saved from hell by the death of
God’s Son?
You Are Worth More Than Silver and Gold
It’s hard to put a dollar amount on a Christian’s worth,
since we’re worth more than anything upon the earth. Peter
tells us “you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver
or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood
of Christ” (1 Pet. 1:18-19).
You can’t put a dollar amount on your worth, since you can’t
express it in physical terms.
How Much Are You Worth?
You are worth so much, Jesus left heaven to save you. He preached
the gospel while enduring trials and persecutions. Then He died
on the cross, bearing your sins in His own body.
How much are you worth? Perhaps we could summarize it and say, “You
are worth the blood of Jesus Christ!”
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