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What Do You Value?
“Some time later, Ben-Hadad king of Aram mobilized his entire army and marched up and laid siege to Samaria. There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.” - 2 Kings 6:24, 25
That’s a passage that really grabs your attention, doesn’t it? While we may recoil at the idea of food being so dear that we would be reduced to paying a king’s ransom for what we would not even have considered before to be food, we can relate (especially of late) to the idea that the value of something is demonstrated in what people are willing to pay to get it.
Jesus in Matthew 13:44-46 compared the kingdom of heaven to items so valuable that you would be willing to sell all you had to possess them. God demonstrated the value that He places upon our salvation by offering His only Son upon the cross (John 3:16). This bulletin is far too short on space to list all who have given fortune, fame, and their very lives to save their souls from hell.
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” - Matthew 6:21
What about us? What do our actions tell others about what we value? Do our children hear one set of values from our lips but another from our actions? Are we setting our hearts on things above or are we joining in the bidding wars over items destined for de-struction? Let’s show the world the value of salvation! In so doing, we will show them something so valuable that God is giving it away for free (Ephesians 2:8).
