If your worth as a person depends on how much you love others, what would your worth be?

Think of all the things that we do in trying to increase our value. We get educated. We acquire skills. We marry up. We associate with others deem valuable. We do all this because there is an underlying assumption that our worth is monetary – our earning potential. But that is what man looks at. God does not assess our worth based on monetary value. He looks at our worth based on how we love!

“And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if i have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” 1 Cor. 13:2

Think of what Paul says! Have you known a person with prophetic powers? What if you met a person who knows things about you that no one should know and be able to tell you whom you will marry and where you will work and be right about all those things? Wouldn’t you think he’s something? Not in God’s eyes if he doesn’t love.

Have you known a person who reads the Bible in the original language and is able to answer every one of your Bible questions in way more details than you have ever thought possible? In comparison, you feel like such an ignoramus. But without love, he’s nothing.

Have you known someone with a gift of healing? This man prayed for your mom who had lung cancer, and after his prayer, the MRI shows that your mother is free of cancer! Yet without love, this man is nothing!

If you love a person that others would shun and ignore, then you are worth more in God’s eyes than someone with all the powers in the world.

“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love.”  – Henry Scougal

You are what you love.

Your worth is how much you love.

That’s why Jesus is worth more than all of us since He loved more than all of us. He loved you and me!

PH