The Worth of a Saint
My late wife had a note in her Bible, I think from an Andrew Murray book, that goes something like this: “The worth of a thing is seen in how much you’re willing to pay for it.”
To buy us out of this sinful world God paid the supreme price. But when selling us back to the world (because of our sins), He gets nothing. The Psalmist tells us, “Thou sellest thy people [backslidden Israel] for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price.”~ Psa. 44:12
That is, God does not gain in glory from a bargain in the backslider's life. In a sense, and I say reverently, He comes out the loser. To put them on the auction block of this world, He gets nothing; there is no profit in them. Jesus said, “ [they] Are good for nothing.”~Matt. 5:13
We are worth everything to Him, but nothing to the world. In other words, a saint is of value to no one but God. He didn’t buy us because of what He saw in us, but in what He could make of us. He takes our nothing and makes it into something.
Oh that God’s people would learn, especially the younger generation, that they are of value only to God. For it is He, and He alone, that can turn a life from “rags to riches.” As old Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. said, “Who wants to serve a world that puts your name up in lights one night, and throws you in the gutter the next?”
He gave Himself for you; will you give yourself to Him?
by an Aged Saint