What is Your Value in Life?
Proverbs 10:20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Ask yourself this question today, Christian, "How valuable are you to God and others?". There is a sure answer for this question, in that, this question reveals its answer by the condition of our heart. Is your thinking ravaged with unlawful thoughts? Are your desires overwhelmingly drawing you into sin? Have you a deep abiding love for the Savior and for souls? If we in truth answer these things and with avid searching find the result of these question to be negative, we are then living a life that presents little value to God and others.
Think now of the value of living righteously. Is not choice silver a most desirable thing? Certainly it is, and so is your life ever valuable and full of worth when living holy and yielded to God. When others see the wisdom given to men from such dependence on the Son of God, they may find great value and respect for the vibrant thoughts that roll from their lips. If they, who have a quickened desire to know God's principles hear us expectantly and they find our mouths full of wisdom, then have we bent an ear to acknowledge the wisdom found in the Word of God? What value there is in speaking right things to people, and what value to God that we can be used by Him to influence people! Yet only consider this, with the wicked heart it is not so. They cannot build up others; but rather in their lips are poison. They intend to strike as a venomous snake with grievous words looking to wound their prey. Their tongue is poised and ready to strike with words that stir up anger or eat as a cancer at the emotion of those afflicted. The wicked look to deceive and gratify their pleasures in sin, all the while harming those who are close and sometimes those who are afar. What little value to God is the heart of one who stinks of death. How should God spend your value to service others when we offend with the rank odor of sin? How could God value the wicked of as much worth as He could those who are as choice silver in His service? May our hearts be in right standing with God!
Now take this final thought. All the while God sees the sinful, and in them He sees the potential in every life. This is so true that if the wicked would allow God to reign in their life they would find the Savior has masterfully crafted a road for them follow. And what a road it is; one of sweet splendor and joy found in knowing Christ! The value of every soul was worth the life of the Son of God, and in that great transaction that took place at Calvary, a wicked heart may be made new and become of great worth and value in the service of the King!
