Finding Your Value

Written By Mike

Society today judges us on what we have or what we’ve achieved, but does that help us in the long run? The growing rise in mental health, especially amongst the younger members of our society who are still trying to discover their path in life, seems to be telling us otherwise.

There is a growing reliance on therapy, and I would never try and say this is a wasted exercise, but I would like everyone to consider what I am putting forward now as another way. Try and Find your worth with God and Jesus.

Try and resist negative self-talk and replace it with God’s truth about who you are.
Trust in God’s promises of love, grace, and redemption.

The Bible has many messages to show how you are valued by God. Here’s just a couple

Romans 5:8: “But God demonstrates his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Ephesians 1:4-5: “For he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in his sight in love, and he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.”

At this time of Easter, there is a chance for us to focus on the enormity of what Jesus did for us at the Crucifixion and how much he valued us and the price he paid.
Try as I might, I cannot put together words that explain it better than songwriter Graham Kendrick. What follows is an extract from one of Graham’s songs, which explains exactly how much we are all loved.

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If you heard that your life had been valued, that a price had been paid on the nail
Would you ask what was traded? How much and who paid for it? Who was He and what was His name?

If you had heard His name was Jesus, would you have said that the price was too dear?
Held to the cross not by nails but by love, it was you broke His heart, not the spear!
Would you say you are worth what it cost Him? You say ‘no’, but the price stays the same.
If it doesn’t make you cry, laugh it off, pass Him by, but remember the day when you throw it away that He paid what He thought you were worth.

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How much do you think He is worth? Will anyone stand up and say? Tell me, what are you willing to give Him in return for the price that He paid?

So regardless of how you are valued by society, you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted

That’s how much you are worth, and don’t let anyone tell you any different.