A Man's Worth

What is a man's worth?

 

I remember a couple of years ago when I was recruiting up in Coshocton. I spent a lot of time up there and got to know a lot of people in the community. There are two kids in particular that come to mind. They didn't really know each other, but they both attended the same church. I got to know both of these young people pretty well. By society’s standards, they were outcasts. 

I was thinking about these two kids and the church they attended. I thought it was awesome how the young people at their church took them under their wing. I thought about how the majority of their peers shunned them. They were not cool or hip. I also thought about how God must see these two. 

 

Matthew 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

 

Matthew 25:45  Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

 

You see, God loves all of his children, and we are all his children. When God sees souls saved, he doesn't care how about society's view of them. Remember the parable about the sheep?

 

Matthew 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Matthew 18:13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

 

When we look at people, we should look at them and try to see them the way God sees them, with love. God was glad to have those two young people back in his flock. He rejoiced at their return. How do we as a people a judge our fellow man's worth? Do we take one look at them and judge them by the clothes they wear? Do we judge them by the color of their skin? Do we blow them off because they are not on our economic level? Is a man's opinion less valuable because he doesn't have the education that we do? Do they not need salvation just as we do? 

 

In God's eyes we are all the same. We are all sinners and have earned our place in Hell's pit. What have you done in your own merit to earn your place in Heaven? If you can list anything other than accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are seriously mistaken. 

 

If you count yourself as a member of God's flock, and you see one which is not, where do you think the Lord is? My bet is that he is out there calling unto the one which is lost. Where do you want to be? If I have a choice, I want to be where the Lord is.  He said in his word that he would be out seeking that which has gone astray. He said he would go out into the mountains if he had to. If we are following Jesus, will we not have to follow him into the mountains? 

 

As we go out into the world in whichever endeavor we find ourselves, as we meet others along the way, I will always try to remember that those I meet are his, and therefore my brother or sister. I will try to see them as God sees them. I will try to love them as God loves them. 

 

The question we asked in the beginning was "what is a man's worth?" This is a fairly simple question to answer, if you answer it with another question. What is a man’s worth to God?  The kingdom surely belongs to the king, and all its treasures to him as well, but treasure and gold could not pay the price. Blood was required, so he sent his prince. God sent his son to be a sacrifice for us. He died so that we would not have to, and rose again that we may live! God did all of this for us, for the greatest of us, and the least of us. That’s how much man is worth to God!