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31 Devotionals on Grace · Tim Chalas

Day 17 — Worth What Jesus Is Worth

Determining what something is worth needs a standard and the most accurate one is whatever someone will pay for it. For vehicles we have The Kelley Blue Book, Zillow for houses, but what about you? God alone is the determiner of what you are worth. Not your failures or successes, not the opinions of others, not your possessions, not your feelings, God alone.

One of the great lies in this world is that we are only worth all those other things but the gospel changes all that. You were bought at a price and it is Jesus. God gave Jesus for you! Read that again! You are worth to God what Jesus is worth to Him. That truth is mind boggling and heartwarming. Believing this means you no longer “short change” yourself in the transactions of life. You are worth more than the offenses committed by you or against you. You are worth more than the achievements or disappointments you have and will experience. You are worth more than the fleeting, momentary, pleasures and comforts the immediate promises. Your value is eternally determined according to the price paid for you by the only One who knows all things and always tells the truth. You are priceless because the worthy One gave Himself for you! Now that is freedom (pun intended).

YOU ARE WORTH TO GOD WHAT JESUS IS WORTH TO HIM.

Reflect

  1. The world tells us our value is fragile and negotiable. What standards, such as achievements, possessions, or opinions, are you tempted to use to measure your worth?
  2. You are worth to God exactly what Jesus is worth to Him. How does that mind-boggling price tag change the way you value yourself?
  3. In what daily transaction or relationship do you need to stop short-changing yourself and start living as someone who is absolutely priceless?

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

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1 Corinthians 6:19-20
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