Your Worth.

What is your value? What are you worth?

What does social media say is your worth? Numbers of followers? Does that determine what you are worth? Is it your accumulated good progress reports at work? Is that what you are worth?

1 Peter 1:18-19 says your worth is tied eternally to something that is outside of you. This means it will not bobble side to side as our productivity waxes and wanes. Our value will not plummet and then skyrocket to amazing heights when we exhaust ourselves on the sports field, only to slide down again due to an injury or depleted performance.

Here is the phrase that will change how you look in the mirror: “you were ransomed . . . not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ,” (1 Peter 1:18-19). That is your worth. God the Father planned that your worth would be marked by the tangible shedding of blood.

There are several reasons the blood of Jesus is attached to our value. One, that lifeblood equates the heinous nature and stench of our sinfulness. Death was needed in order to ransom us from under the weight of God’s holy justice. Yes, my sin and your sin is that bad. Two, that lifeblood is the most precious thing in this universe. When God’s Son puts His life on the chopping block instead of letting you be punished by the death sentence attached to your spiritual rap sheet, He is claiming an inevitable execution that must either fall on you or fall on Him. He had a choice. He chose for God’s just arm of punishment to fall on Him. Why would He do that?

He did that because there is no greater love that one who gives up His life for another. Jesus gave up His life for you; have you experienced that immense love? Use today as a starting point for contemplating that worth. The blood of Jesus is what defines your worth. Live in that truth!