What are you worth? Figuring out your worth or the worth of anything can
be a difficult task.
Allow me to give you an illustration. Back
when I was at seminary in Springfield, Illinois, I spent a fair amount
of time wandering through the museums dedicated to Abraham Lincoln.
At one of those museums, I saw a few square inches of silk.
Now silk can be an expensive cloth, but this bit of material is not for
sale. Offer what you want, you can't buy it.
Why? Well, its value
is not because it was once part of a dress owned and worn by a young
lady by the name of Clara Harris. Not one person in a hundred would be
able to recognize Harris' name.
No, that silk has value because
-- the night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated -- Clara Harris was
sitting in the president's box with him. After Lincoln had been shot,
she caught him and cradled his head in her lap. Like a mother might
cradle her child, she held him.
And Harris' beautiful silk dress
was stained by the blood of a great man. It is Lincoln's blood that
caused the state of Illinois to buy that dress. It is Lincoln's blood
that gives those square inches of silk their immense value.
This
takes me back to the original question: what are you worth?
Some
will say your body, broken down into its various base elements, is worth
a few dollars. Justice will say you are, because of your sin, worth less
than nothing.
But the Heavenly Father has put a different value
on you.
Because of His Son's life's blood poured out on Calvary's
cruel cross, you have a different value. Because of Jesus' blood you are
washed, you are forgiven and, with Holy Spirit-given faith, you are
saved.
What are you worth? You were worth the life of God's Son:
you were worth saving.
And for that we should give unending
thanks to the Lord.
THE PRAYER: Dear Lord, there are times when
people and problems, times and troubles wish to grind me down and make
me feel worthless. Especially at such moments may my eyes be lifted to
the cross, so I might see the Savior. Let me realize You have made me
valuable because my sins have been washed away by the blood of Jesus, my
Savior. In His Name I pray this. Amen.
Pastor Ken Klaus
Lutheran Hour Ministries
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Today's Bible Verse:
"Then one of the elders addressed me (John), saying, 'Who are these,
clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?' I said to him,
'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'These are the ones coming out of
the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb.'" (Revelation 7:13-14)
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