When my parents were kids, they used to go to the Dime Store or they also had a Five and Dime Store. With the increase in the cost of living, the Dime Store is now Dollar General or The Dollar Tree. Now if you have been in Dollar General, you know that not everything in there is $1. However, you know that the quality of things that you find in Dollar General is not the same quality you would find if you went to Macy’s, Nordstrom’s, or William Sonoma. The quality and the cost are different at these stores.
Cost vs. Quality
We tend to equate cost with quality. If something is expensive, the general consensus is the quality is also very good.
So a piece of cookware bought at Dollar General and a piece of cookware bought at William Sonoma will not have the same cost. We would tend to value the cookware from William Sonoma higher than the cookware bought at Dollar General.
Let’s transition this.
What kind of value do you or any of us for that matter place on another human being and on ourselves?
Do we think of the cost? Or do we only value a human being if they have something valuable to offer?
What does Scripture have to say?
“For you were bought with a price…” (I Cor. 6:20).
What was that price you were bought with?
Christ laid down His life for us. He gave up His life so that we can have eternal life.
Christians that are struggling with who they are, say they have no self-worth, and they have no self-esteem, are forgetting the most important thing. Christ paid for you with His life.
“You were bought with a price.”
When we sit around and mope because we feel no one likes us, do we remember “we were bought with a price?”
When we feel sorry for ourselves because there have been other people who told us we were worthless, do we remember “we were bought with a price?”
When we feel valueless and see nothing good in ourselves, do we remember “we were bought with a price?”
Thoughts vs. Action
Too many Christians get so caught up in what others THINK of them, they forget what God has DONE for them. Wouldn’t you rather have someone show you how much they love you rather than just tell you they love you?
As we continue this series of blogs I am writing about our identity, we must remember the most important of lessons. “We were bought with a price.”
So on the day when no one will sit with you at lunch, remember you are so valuable dear Christian that “you were bought with a price.”
Or maybe it’s when others make fun of you for something, remember that you are made in God’s image and “you were bought with a price.”
Too often the world sucks us into thinking that we are only valuable if the right people like us, we wear the right clothes, drive the right car, live in the right house, have the right friends…Who actually defines what is right?
When the end of our days draws near, the friends we had in high school will be a distant memory. Unfortunately, we let those school friends impact our thinking about who we are. I have.
Rather, when the end of our days draws near, we should be focused on the God who loved us so much He sent His Son to pay the price for our sins. Why not start living this every day, right now?
“YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE…”
