What are you really worth?

What are you really worth?

On the one hand, Bill Gates currently has a net worth of 61 billion dollars.  On the other hand, a homeless orphan that is starving naked in Sudan has a net worth of zero.   Is Bill Gates really worth 61 billion dollars more than that homeless orphan?  Can the worth of a person be measured by what they own?

What are you really worth?

On one hand, one person may have worked hard, dealt honestly in everything that they done, generously given to others in every imaginable way and rescued strangers from any harm that came their way, even to the point sacrificing to help the ungrateful.  People would say a person like that is worth their weight in gold.  On the other hand, another person may have never worked a day in their lives, cheated people at every opportunity, extorted others in every imaginable way and brought harm to everyone including their own family, even to the point of raping children.  People would say that a person like that is worthless.  Is the hard working, honest, generous person really worth more than the lazy, dishonest, child molester?  Can the worth of a person be measured by what they do?

What are you really worth?

The Book of Truth (The Bible) tells what you are really worth.  Let us start by examining the story that the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) told about the father and his two sons to see how the father measured the worth of his two sons.

The older son owned everything that his father had when the younger son returned home (Luke 15:31).  The younger son owned nothing that his father had when he returned home (Luke 15:13-14). Was the older son really worth more than the younger son to his father? Can the worth of a person be measured by what they own?

What are you really worth?

The older son had been faithful and obedient to his father (Luke 15:29).  The younger son had been faithless and disobedient to his father (Luke 15:21).  Was the older son really worth more than the younger son to his father? Can the worth of a person be measured by what they do?

What are you really worth?

The father confirmed that the older son had the worth of a son when he refused to join the celebration (Luke 15:31).  The father confirmed that the younger son had the worth of a son when he came home again (Luke 15:24).  Both sons still had the same worth to the father.  Why was that?

Both sons had been created by their father.  Both sons bore the image of their father.  Both sons were a son to their father when they chose to live in his house in obedience to him.  What they owned or what they had done could not change their worth as a son.

You were created in the image of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) (Genesis 1:27).  The Father of Truth created you and you bear His image.  You are a Child of Truth (someone who obeys The Father of Truth because they love Him) when you choose to live in the House of Truth in obedience to the Father of Truth.  What you own or what you have done can never change your worth as a Child of Truth.

Somethings have a worth that was assigned by their creator.  For example, consider a twenty dollar bill.  Almost nobody would argue that Andrew Jackson was a greater president than George Washington or Abraham Lincoln even though they are on the one dollar and five dollar bill.  So the worth of a twenty dollar bill is not based on the face that is on it.

Also the worth of a twenty dollar bill never changes and all twenty dollar bills have the same worth.  A crisp, new twenty dollar bill is worth twenty dollars.  An old wrinkled twenty dollar bill is worth twenty dollars.  A twenty dollar bill is worth twenty dollars if it has been treated as a treasured possession.  A twenty dollar bill with worth twenty dollars if it has been abused and neglected.  A twenty dollar bill is worth twenty dollars if it has remained nice and clean.  A twenty dollar bill is worth twenty dollars if has been trampled on and dragged thru the sewer.  There is nothing that can happen to a twenty dollar bill to make it worth twenty one dollars.  There is nothing that can happen to a twenty dollar bill to make it worth nineteen dollars.  A twenty dollar bill is always worth twenty dollars because its creator, the US government, has assigned its worth.

You have a worth that was assigned by your Creator.  It does not matter if you have the face of a Jew or a Gentile.  It does not matter if you have the face of a man or a woman.  It does not matter if you have a white face, a red face, a black face, a brown face or a yellow face.  It does not matter if you have a face from some sort of multiracial mix that throws the government into fits when it tries to classify you by race.  It does not matter if your face is flawless or disfigured.  Your worth is not based on the face you have on.

Also your worth never changes and you have the same worth as any other person.  Your worth is the same when you are born as when you are old and wrinkled.  Your worth is the same rather you have been treated as a treasured possession or have been abused and neglected.  Your worth is the same if you have remained nice and clean or if you have been trampled on and dragged thru the sewers.  There is nothing that can happen to you or that you can do to make you worth any more.  There is nothing that can happen to you or that you can do to make you worth any less.  Your worth will never change because your Creator, the Father of Truth, has assigned your worth.

What are you really worth?

In 2011 a painting, the Card Players, sold for more than 250 million dollars.  What made this painting worth more than 250 million dollars while many other paintings are worth less than 250 dollars?  Its worth was established by the price that the royal family of Qatar was willing to pay for it.

Your worth is established by the price that the royal family of Heaven, the Father of Truth and the Man of Truth, were willing to pay for you.

What are you really worth?

The Father of Truth bought you back for a price so you could bring glory to Him as a child does their father (1 Corinthians 6:20).  The Father of Truth bought you back for a price so you could serve Him as a child does their father (1 Corinthians 7:23).  What price did the Father of Truth pay for you?

The Father of Truth gave an unspeakable gift to buy you back from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) so you could be a Child of Truth (2 Corinthians 9:15).  The Father of Truth gave the Man of Truth, His only begotten Son, to buy you back from the Father of Lies so you could be a Child of Truth (John 3:16).  The Father of Truth had such great love for you, yes you, even you, that He paid such a terrible price to buy you back from the Father of Lies so you could be a Child of Truth who lives in the House of Truth with Him (1 John 3:1).

What are you really worth?

The Man of Truth also thought that you were worth the price that it would cost him to complete the will of the Father of Truth in buying you back from the Father of Lies so you could be a Child of Truth who lives in the House of Truth with him (Matthew 26:42).  What did it cost him?

The price that the Man of Truth paid was his own blood (Acts 20:28).  You could not be bought back with money from the Father of Lies (1 Peter 1:18-19).  The blood of animals was not good enough to buy you back from the Father of Lies (Hebrews 10:4).  The Man of Truth had to die the most horrible of all deaths, that of dying on a cross, to buy you back from the Father of Lies so you could be a Child of Truth who lives in the House of Truth with him (Philippians 2:8).

The Father of Truth did not force the Man of Truth to lay down his life on a cross for you nor was he the unwilling victim of the unbelieving Jews or the ignorant Romans (John 10:17-18).  The Man of Truth died so you could come into the House of Truth instead of him remaining alone in the House of Truth as the only child of the Father of Truth (John 12:24).  The Man of Truth chose to shed his blood on a cross so you could live in peace with him as a Child of Truth in the House of Truth (Colossians 1:20).  The Man of Truth shed his own blood on cross because he thought YOU were worth dying for.

What are you really worth?

Now that you know what you are really worth it is time for you to come into the House of Truth.  You come into the House of Truth when you become obedient to the Man of Truth because His Father raised him from the dead after he paid what you are really worth (Romans 10:9-13).

Come into the House of Truth.