Value
How much would you go out of your way to communicate your love to someone you believe is of great value and most special to you?
When a man wishes to demonstrate his love for a woman he wishes to spend his life with, he goes out and buys her an expensive ring and then asks her to marry him. This often involves elaborate planning as, for many, it means setting a special moment to do so. The desire is to communicate to her the value he has placed on her, and the desire is not viewed as an inconvenience but rather a privilege.
Jacob’s story is a testament to the power of love and sacrifice. He labored for 14 years, enduring deceit and exploitation, all for the woman he loved, Rachel. His actions were not driven by selfish desires but by a selfless love that placed a high value on Rachel. His willingness to do whatever was necessary to have her is a powerful example of sacrificial love.
Jesus demonstrated the love of God for us when He sacrificed Himself at the cross.
Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
God ascribed a value to us. A value that no created thing can alter regardless of what they might say or do.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The reason it is important to know by revelation the greatness of Jesus and His worth to the Father is that without knowing it, you cannot know how greatly loved and valued you are by the Father and by Jesus.
Ignorance of such truth leads to living a careless life, unaware of who you are and how much you are loved. It can forfeit the motivation to live as He sees you and tap into the power of being identified with Him in the knowledge of His goodness and love.
1Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
The fear Peter speaks of here involves forgetting the truth of who He is and what He has done and thus becoming unfruitful and frivolous in how we live.
We are to know our worth by first knowing His worth and then seeing the price He was willing to pay in order to redeem us to Himself. He is not interested in merely telling us He loves us. He demonstrated it by paying the greatest price ever paid. The One who is the greatest, most prized, powerful, beautiful, and wonderful of all went to the greatest length ever imagined to make us His own.
If we lose sight of who He is, what He did loses its wonder. Your understanding of how valued you are begins with your knowing how amazingly wonderful and great He is. It was not just any blood. It was the precious blood of Christ that redeemed us. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus! He is no doubt the most wonderful Savior and Lord and has no rivals or equals!
