Defining Value
Last week a man was sued over a baseball. One single baseball used in a professional game with the same 108 stitches as the 89 other balls used during every Major League Baseball game. The cost of each ball is about $3.However, this baseball is special. Not because of anything it had done, not because of any physical significance. It is significant because of what somebody has done to it. Barry Bonds hit this ball over the fence for his 700th home run - a milestone, leaving him 14 shy (at that point) of the legendary Babe Ruth. Experts estimate that the ball will be sold for about $100,000. Barry's record setting 73rd home run ball in 2001 sold for $900,000, and Mark McGwire's 70th home run in 1999 garnered 3.2 million.
So what defines worth? Ultimately it is defined by what somebody is willing to pay.
Our lives are worth one Jesus Christ. That is the price that God was willing to pay for us. He did not pay that price because of anything we had done. Our worth was not defined by what we had done well - but because of what God had done to us - creating us and loving us.
How do you define your worth? Is it based on general opinion? The opinion of a specific individual? Cultural values? Physical beauty? Money? The only true way to define worth is to be bought - and each one of us has been bought at the greatest price one could pay.
posted by Devo @ 6:09 PM
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