WHAT IS HE WORTH TO YOU?

by an Old Disciple of Jesus Christ

My wife has a note in her Bible which reads, “The value of anything is in direct proportion to what someone is willing to pay for it.” Not all of God’s chosen have put a very high price on Jesus. The Gospel writer tells us, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value...” They thought His worth was the same as a common slave.

How many of God’s children today have sold His Son for a mess of this world’s pottage? They have under-valued Him. They sing “I’d rather have Jesus than anything,” but they sing it from feigned lips. Few are willing to give all they have for this Pearl of great price. But that little Jew, Saul of Tarsus, did. His testimony was, “I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but dung, that I may win Christ.” Paul considered anything put in comparison to Christ to be manure. Everything in life—no matter how good—has a stench, without His holy fragrance upon it.

The definition of the word “invaluable” is, “beyond calculable value: of inestimable worth: priceless.” May He never be, in our lives or ministries, up for sale. No matter if it is all the gold of Ophir. 

Solomon’s wealth is worthless; for we have found the One who is greater than Solomon. Amen, Amen, and Amen!