Five Minute Friday - Worth

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

what's it worth to you?

worth it

for what it's worth

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My husband collects hockey cards. He's specific about which teams or players, which sets, stuff like that. He's focused and he generally only buys cards that fit his criteria. And that he considers worth the price he would pay. We have a little exchange that has become somewhat traditional every time a card he purchased on eBay arrives in the mail.

He shows me the card and I comment on it. Just a vague "okay, nice," if I don't know much about the player, or sometimes a more enthusiastic "Whoa! Very cool!" if I recognize one of the greats of the game or that it is rare or special card. This is almost always followed by his predictable question, which is some variation of "what do you think this is worth?" After I've guessed, he'll either tell me or show me in the Beckett guide what the average value of the card is, and then I'm also supposed to guess how much he paid for it. 

Worth and value are relative. The price of the card may have been five bucks, but if it's the one card he needs to complete his set, or it's his favorite player, the value to him might be much higher. It might be worth it to him to pay more than the fair market value of the card because he wants that particular card. Most of his card collection is not worth much to me because I'm not collecting cards. Its value to me is tied up in what it means to him. (Or in what I could sell it for!) We sometimes joke about the value of the cards, because the truth is that entire collection isn't really WORTH anything more than what someone is willing to pay for it.

Each person alive has intrinsic worth and value. But have you ever stopped to think about where the worth comes from, and how the value is assigned? My family may consider my worth to be very high because of our relationship, but a stranger in another country probably wouldn't consider my worth to be any more than any other human. So does my actual worth as a person fluctuate based on the market or my location? Actually, I believe my worth is based on what someone was willing to pay for me.

Jesus Christ paid in blood for me. And for you. That is the simple truth of the gospel. None of us are all that and a bag of chips on our own merit. But God loved us enough to pay an amazing high price, one that no one will ever outbid. Christ died for us. That's what we're worth to him. When we know that truth, it should transform the way we view ourselves and the way we live.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~Romans 5:6-8

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Worth".

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