Valueless or Value Less?

Value matters. We all want to be valuable, right? Society and culture have a measuring stick for this; it is called income, and what you bring in, is a physical by-product of how valuable you are. This scale only works if we compare though. A person's salary can only be gauged in comparison to another person's salary. So in other words, money sets value. Like it or not, that is a pretty factual statement. I am not saying it is true; what I am saying is that it is what we believe is true.

For the sake of argument let's say that one of your co-workers, doing the same job for the same time, was to get a $10,000 raise, and you did not. What might you think? That unfairness had occurred? At the least, we would be bothered, and more than likely we would "have a problem" with this, and one that we would share with anyone who would listen, right?... and everyone will listen, won't they.

What if, after the fact, you found out that your co-worker had a young son who was diagnosed with cancer, and that there was a new treatment available that insurance did not cover? The company you work for actually cut some expenses to give the employee the raise so he could afford the treatment for his son. Would that change how you feel? Would that change your value or his value?

What has happened that we see the need to be the purveyors of value? Why do we so often, need to compare what we have, with what others have? Do you know what would, or could happen if there was no-one to compare ourselves with or to? We might find that far, far away place called contentment. Maybe we should let value be set by the Creator, and take the burden off ourselves, after all He made us.

"There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28.

"For God does not show favoritism." Romans 2:11.

So what do you say? Let's spend a little less time wondering what our value is compared to someone else's money, and more time rejoicing in who God made us to be. We could get a whole lot more done for His Kingdom...and that's PRICELESS.

...just sayin'

In His grip,

Pastor Pat