What Are We Worth?
WHEN WE SEE WHAT GOD WAS WILLING TO PAY, WE ARE ABLE TO APPRECIATE WHAT WE ARE
WORTH TO HIM.
What are you worth?
If you were being held for ransom what would the kidnappers, ask? Someone paid a ransom for you. You have been ransomed.
For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man [the] Messiah Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time. (1Timothy 2:5-6)
If you were being sold as a slave, what price would you bring? Look at this word-picture:
… 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 [the] Messiah. (1Peter 1:18-19)
You have been redeemed. Since that’s so, you are beseeched to return to the Lord.
Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. (Isaiah 44:22b)
There was provision given in the Torah to redeem family members who were sold into slavery. You can see yourself as a family member who was redeemed by God, Himself.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today. (Deuteronomy 15:15)
Nobody pays for what you don’t value. One doesn’t consciously overpay for something he can get for less. Currently the most expensive car in the world is the Rolls Royce Septalis. It is worth $13,000,000. If someone offered to swap my house for that car I would most likely say, “When?” On the other hand, if I was offered a 2004 Scion (about $3,000) for my home, I wouldn’t take the offer seriously.
When I realized that our worth to God was demonstrated in the ransom He paid, it sort of took my breath away. God is not a fool. In God’s True Love, I wrote, “Nothing is more valuable than the blood of Jesus. This uttermost price indicates your absolute value to God, the degree of our indebtedness, and the ruthlessly loving determination of God to redeem us.”
Check out the small group curriculum, based on the book, God’s True Love!
