Day 165: The Selling Of Yourself
Read: Luke 9:23 - 26
Have you ever heard the expression, "I would like to buy him/her for what their worth and sell them for what they think their worth." You may have even said
that about someone. But I can assure you that you could never buy a
person for what they are worth. I had never heard this expression until
recently when I started reading a list of The Forbes Richest Men in The
World and read where the worlds richest man had lost a small (what this
means to a billionaire I cannot begin to guess) percentage of his wealth
and nearly lost his status as the worlds richest man. Humph! Then a
good friend mentioned the phrase above. And I wondered about this
"selling of yourself" and my own life.
How much am I worth? How much are you
worth? What is our net value? Are value and worth the same thing? If you
fill out a will or take out a loan – they will try to determine what is
your net worth? What is the value of the collateral you bring to the
table to support your loan request? What determines your worth? What
determines our value? Is it how much money you might have in the bank or
savings? Is it how much property or material things you possess? What
make you uniquely you? What makes you uniquely valuable that others will
be ready to take a risk with you? Or for you? How are you and me so uniquely different
from any other person on earth - now or has ever been?
You are the only one of your kind. YOU ARE TOTALLY UNIQUE: You are totally unique physically: finger prints – heart beats – DNA. You are totally unique
mentally: We do not think alike - in fact, no two brains ever work the
same. You are also totally unique spiritually: We all have similar strengths and weaknesses, but never the same ones. Someone might put it this way, "you are uniquely different - just like everyone else." The thing that makes you and me uniquely different is our eternal soul.
Jesus asks us a stunning question: What would you sell your soul for?
Some would not knowingly sell it for anything but then there is likewise, a multitude
who are knowingly selling them - and selling cheap.
Verse 25: 'What is a
man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits
himself? Forfeits himself? Rather a blunt and strong way of asking about
self worth! I don’t know what you consider the worth of your soul
today but Jesus believed that one soul was worth far more than all the
wealth of this world - that being the laying down of His own life upon
the cross at Calvary. That is a whole lot for anyone to give give up
for the soul of a complete stranger like you and me - 2 thousand years
after the fact. If someone asks - what is the most valuable possession
that you have? What do you respond with popularity? Pleasure? Wealth?
Influence? What price then your soul? What price then is my own soul?
Let Us Pray: Father, we
know that in ourselves we are nothing, but in You, we are made complete.
Our identity is found in Christ and that is the basis of our self-worth
making us valuable and capable of worthy service through Christ who
dwells within us. Help us not to be consumed with thoughts of how the
world views us, but to think soberly with good judgment so that we do
not look to the wrong source for approval or imitate that which takes
glory from Christ. Through Christ Jesus our Lord we pray.
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Read: Luke 9:23 - 26
Have you ever heard the expression, "I would like to buy him/her for what their worth and sell them for what they think their worth." You may have even said that about someone. But I can assure you that you could never buy a person for what they are worth. I had never heard this expression until recently when I started reading a list of The Forbes Richest Men in The World and read where the worlds richest man had lost a small (what this means to a billionaire I cannot begin to guess) percentage of his wealth and nearly lost his status as the worlds richest man. Humph! Then a good friend mentioned the phrase above. And I wondered about this "selling of yourself" and my own life.
How much am I worth? How much are you worth? What is our net value? Are value and worth the same thing? If you fill out a will or take out a loan – they will try to determine what is your net worth? What is the value of the collateral you bring to the table to support your loan request? What determines your worth? What determines our value? Is it how much money you might have in the bank or savings? Is it how much property or material things you possess? What make you uniquely you? What makes you uniquely valuable that others will be ready to take a risk with you? Or for you? How are you and me so uniquely different from any other person on earth - now or has ever been?
You are the only one of your kind. YOU ARE TOTALLY UNIQUE: You are totally unique physically: finger prints – heart beats – DNA. You are totally unique mentally: We do not think alike - in fact, no two brains ever work the same. You are also totally unique spiritually: We all have similar strengths and weaknesses, but never the same ones. Someone might put it this way, "you are uniquely different - just like everyone else." The thing that makes you and me uniquely different is our eternal soul. Jesus asks us a stunning question: What would you sell your soul for? Some would not knowingly sell it for anything but then there is likewise, a multitude who are knowingly selling them - and selling cheap.
Verse 25: 'What is a man benefited if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself? Forfeits himself? Rather a blunt and strong way of asking about self worth! I don’t know what you consider the worth of your soul today but Jesus believed that one soul was worth far more than all the wealth of this world - that being the laying down of His own life upon the cross at Calvary. That is a whole lot for anyone to give give up for the soul of a complete stranger like you and me - 2 thousand years after the fact. If someone asks - what is the most valuable possession that you have? What do you respond with popularity? Pleasure? Wealth? Influence? What price then your soul? What price then is my own soul?
Let Us Pray: Father, we know that in ourselves we are nothing, but in You, we are made complete. Our identity is found in Christ and that is the basis of our self-worth making us valuable and capable of worthy service through Christ who dwells within us. Help us not to be consumed with thoughts of how the world views us, but to think soberly with good judgment so that we do not look to the wrong source for approval or imitate that which takes glory from Christ. Through Christ Jesus our Lord we pray.
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