What is your life worth?

Not your job, not your house… Your value isn’t found in your possessions or the amount in your bank account. If we’re honest, many of us don’t live like we’re valuable. We measure ourselves by failure, comparison and disappointment… and over time, we quietly believe we’re not worth much at all. 

Yet Jesus speaks directly into that thinking with a confronting question:

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matt. 16:26)

In other words, what could possibly equal the value of your soul? According to Jesus, nothing. Your soul is worth more than every dollar, every achievement, and every ounce of influence this world can offer. This isn’t poetic exaggeration. It’s truth. And if we truly believed it, it would change how we live, what we pursue, and how we see ourselves.

Value is measured by the price someone is willing to pay, and God didn’t just say you’re valuable, He demonstrated it. Galatians 2:20 tells us, “the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Not just humanity in general, but each individual life. Yours included. You are not overlooked or insignificant. You are worth the price Jesus paid on the cross.

There’s a story of a man who found a large pearl and kept it under his bed for years, unaware of its true worth. It was later revealed to be worth 100 million dollars. The value was always there; but he didn’t see it. Many people live the same way. Valuable, but unaware. Living beneath their worth, carrying shame and insecurity, not realising how highly they’re valued by God. Jesus told a parable of a merchant who found one pearl of great price and sold everything he had to obtain it (Matt.13:45–46). The truth is you are that pearl. You are so valuable to God that He gave everything to redeem you. When this truth takes hold, it changes us. A life devoted to God is not about trying to earn His love, it’s a response to a love that has already been given.

Perhaps you’ve been living unaware of your true worth. I want to tell you, you’re not forgotten. You’re not worthless. You are that pearl of great worth, and you are priceless to God.

Peter Maher 

The Range Church