So many brothers and sisters in Christ estimate their worth in what they can do for God. They value themselves if they are good ministers, parents, children, employees, employers, and stewards of their finances. Whole none of these things are bad, we all want to achieve some progress; but estimating our worth on these things is sheer folly. At some point you won’t be able to minster in the way you are acxustomed, you will find your parental days challenged and then sidelined, as a child you will fail your parents, as an employee you will lose zeal, as an employer reach an unsurmountable obstacle, and finally debt will rattle your financial stewardship. Gaging our worth on transient and even shifting paradigms is a recipe for disaster.
Our true worth is contained in our species name, Human Being. Being, or to be, that is our value. Your existence, not your exploits or experience is what matter. You were designed by God the Trinity to Be; your existence and life brings God and others joy, you were never meant to have your worth estimated bu accolades, works, or intellect, but by being. Even God’s oldest name shows us, “I AM that I AM, say to the Children of Israel that I AM has sent you.” (Exodus 3:14). God’s oldest name is I AM, which goes with our Being; for the I AM who is Christ (John 8:24, John 4:26) made us and created us with Father and Spirit. Even when we Chrisfians become a follower of Jesus it is believe which contains be/ lieve, we believe in the I AM and are his beings, in fact, “For in Him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.” (Acts 12:28).
Our Lord Jesus values you for who you are and that you draw breath! He bled on a cross so that you could continue to keep being for all eternity, and just as important, be with Him! (John 14:3). Your value and worth is you and your existence, not what you do! Do not let devil make you believe you are a human doing that is made valuable and precious by merit and works; but rather believe God who says He ao loved you that He died for you when you were His enemy, “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” (Romans 5:8-11).
Of course your gifts, skills, passions, and interests matter to God; they are part of who you are. But your value is not defined by them or what you can do, for you are precious to God who poured out His life to rescue you from sin and the Second Death!
May you accept that nothing you do can make you more valuable to God; you already are priceless, so much so that God took on human flesh and died for us:
“5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
6 Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
7 Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being.
When he appeared in human form,
8 he humbled himself in obedience to God
and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor
and gave him the name above all other names,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2). Christ marginalized himself to secure pur eternity because he doesn’t want to be without us n heaven. Us existing matter so much to our Lord, He died a excruciating death and rose from the dead. We are valuable enough to die for! Amen.
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