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 It is very difficult to write about self-worth
because it isn't possible to calculate a price for or place a value on a
person. However, our society does make an effort to do just that. In some
ways we can say that the idea that a price can be put on a person keeps our
economy running. Our society bombards us with its own value system to which
we are pressured to adhere. We are continually shown things that we have to
possess in order to be worth something. It might be a certain educational
degree, a new car, or a flat muscular stomach. The pressure is added when we
are constantly shown pictures of people in popular magazines, television
shows, or movies who seemingly have more than we have and are thus deemed
better. The truth about ourselves is greater than material ideals.
In a sense we must unlearn in order to learn the
truths of ourselves. Those paramount truths cannot be found in material
possessions, in movies, or in magazines at the checkout counter of
convenience stores. Rather, all truth has to be found in Christ. While our
modern sciences can teach us what we are made of, they cannot teach us the
fullness of who we are. We find out who we are when we look at ourselves
through the eyes of God, which transcends what we can reason about
ourselves. When we look at humanity through the eyes of faith, we realize
that in and of ourselves, humans are nothing. We are made of dust and to the
dust we will return; yet with God, who breathed into that dust the Holy
Spirit and who made for us the ultimate sacrifice, we are all made equally
priceless.
This truth is a hard pill to swallow in a
society built on merit. In the heart and eyes of God, the believer who
spends every moment in Church, praying devotions, is just as priceless as
the prostitute walking the streets: the millionaire living in the New York
penthouse is just as priceless as the homeless man on the street.
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