We normally judge our own self-worth at any point in time by the surrounding circumstances.
In the merger of the 2 media companies, Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao termed the artistes who had been retrenched as 'the rapidity of the fall from being Singapore's darlings to joining the unemployment ranks...'. This underscores how society deemed the real worth of a person by the fortune, fame and occupation of the person at the point of seeing a person.
If that is the case, do we then judge Mr Sim Wong Hoo, CEO of Creative Technology, as worthless, a parasite of society during the 1980s when he's desperately broke and trying to do research on a shoe-string budget for his company?
Should the real worth of a person be judged in this way?
But look at the worth of each individual in God's sight:
- John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
- 1 John 4:4 "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."
- Isaiah 44:2 "he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you"
- Ephesians 5:25 "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her"
The worth of each individual is priceless in God's sight, it is covenantally true no matter our current economic status, whether our human relationships failed/betrayed us, whether we are ugly or sick... God loves us no matter how we look and how many times we have failed Him, simply taking us as we are, seeing us as lovable through the blood of Jesus Christ.
Have you taken hold of God's love for you today?
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