Valuation

Is the housing market not crazy right now? If your latest real estate tax statement isn’t telling the story, just chat with a real-estate agent and you’ll be sure to hear some jaw-dropping stories of the kinds of over-asking-price deals that have been brokered. But what is it that defines the value of your home exactly? For that matter, what defines the value of anything? Doesn’t it really come down to what someone is willing to pay for it?

How valuable is something if someone is willing to give their life for it? How valuable is someone if the most impressive, self-sacrificing, wisest, most-loving person who ever lived gave up their life so that someone could live? And what if that person set aside their rights as God of the Universe to take on the punishment for the sinful acts of that someone? Infinitely valuable. That’s what you are. The valuation placed upon your life by the one who purchased your freedom with His own blood is infinitely valuable.

So, if we are so infinitely valuable, why do most of us feel worthless or undervalued most of the time? It’s our enemy. Scripture says he came to steal, kill and destroy. He steals and destroys many things, but I think his M.O. starts with our sense of identity. If he is able to steal/conceal our identity from us, then, not understanding our true worth, we are willing to run in a million wrong directions, attempting to gain some kind of worth for ourselves. It’s distracting at best and destructive at worst.

There are two things we have to get a handle on for there to be a foundation on which all of REAL-Living builds: the Truth about who God is and the truth about who He says we are. Get to know Jesus; He’ll walk you through it.