You Are Beyond Price

The most expensive piece of jewelry that I own is my wedding ring.  My husband designed it and paid for it.  It had a price tag.  It has worth put on it because of what its made of.  1 Corinthians 6:20 says, “You were bought with a price, [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own].”

I love this verse in the Amplified Version.  Purchased with a preciousness.  I don’t know too many girls of any age today who would use words like precious, valuable, or worthy to describe themselves.  It’s so common to here words and phrases like self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth.  But to be a bit blunt, they’re rubbish!  (Please read that sentence with a British accent.  Thank you.)  But it’s true.  They’re so commonly used and yet they don’t solve a single problem.  Let’s do a little subtraction, shall we?

If we take away the less common portion of these words and leave the most common portion, what will we have left?

Self-esteem

Self-confidence

Self-worth

SELF

No matter which way you look at it, you will end up with self.  It’s esteem in ourselves, confidence in ourselves, worth in ourselves.

The biggest need that we have when we are feeling like we’re falling short of our own expectations or the expectations of others, feeling worthless, or we have little confidence in ourselves and our abilities…..is to change our source.

If we look to ourselves for confidence, value, worth, we’ll always fall short.  Because looking at myself, I’m not a great source for anything.  I’m so incredibly flawed….why on earth would I want to use myself as a source for anything?

Hebrews 12:2 says in the Amplified, “Looking away [from all that will dristract] to Jesus Who is the leader and the source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, dispising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Let’s look at a few things from this passage from Paul.

Looking away from all that will distract= this includes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Hollywood, celebrities, fads, others’ opinions, even ourselves.

Looking instead to Jesus= OUR SOURCE

Giving the first incentive to our faith= incentive is defined as something that incites into action or greater effort.  Jesus as our source puts our faith into action.

And finally, He went to the cross for the joy of obtaining the prize.  Do you know what that price was?

It Was YOU.

Everything He did, everything He suffered, everything Jesus ever did was with you in mind.  Because you are beyond price to Him.