A Person’s Worth in the Eyes of God
A Devotion for 2/21/2016. What is a person’s worth? Since the dawn of civilization humans have been asking this question and have developed many attempts to answer it. We have not become good at answering the question. We live in a pluralistic world where we have created many faiths in which the person must climb their way upwards to find some kind of enlightenment. Even the Christian Church has had a hand adding to the difficulty of the question by often downplaying the worth of a person. One way we try to answer to this complex, human question, is through the practice of trying to find acceptance among others. As humans we think, “Well if I just work hard enough and make enough money then I’ll prove my worth to everyone,” or, “If my body looks this certain way then people will finally start noticing me,” and “If I say the right things, w...