Question – Who am I, and what am I worth to the world anyway?

Question:

Who am I, and what am I worth to the world anyway?

Answer:

This question has been asked by several individuals, and I have put it in my own words. It may not be exactly the way originally written, but it is a credible question to ask, and I will seek to give a credible answer.

In the first place, man was created in the image of God; man was perfect in every way and greatly loved by his heavenly Father. Satan had been cast out of heaven because of his animosity against God and especially against His Son Jesus. It became Satan’s determination to gain all the followers he could and to do all that it was possible to do to hurt God and His Son. So he tempted man to disobey God.

When man disobeyed God, which is sin, he cut himself off from God, which meant that he no longer had a source of life, because life comes from God. But God loves man with a supreme love, and the thought of not having him for a friend was a very great sorrow which filled all heaven, for they knew that apart from God there is no life. That meant that when the life man had was used up, the human race would become extinct.

In their great love for mankind, God and Jesus created a plan of redemption whereby man could be saved.

“The soul that has given himself to Christ is more precious in His sight than the whole world.” The Desire of Ages (1898), 483.

“The wealth of earth dwindles into insignificance when compared with the worth of a single soul for whom our Lord and Master died. He who weigheth the hills in scales and the mountains in a balance regards a human soul as of infinite value.” God’s Amazing Grace, 173.

“The value of a soul, who can estimate? Would you know its worth, go to Gethsemane, and there watch with Christ through those hours of anguish, when He sweat as it were great drops of blood. Look upon the Saviour uplifted on the cross. Hear that despairing cry, ‘My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?’ Mark 15:34. Look upon the wounded head, the pierced side, the marred feet. Remember that Christ risked all. For our redemption, heaven itself was imperiled. At the foot of the cross, remembering that for one sinner Christ would have laid down His life, you may estimate the value of a soul.” Christ’s Object Lessons, 196.

You, dear reader, are the one soul for whom Christ went through all the agony of the farce of a trial and the cross. He did it to save you for eternity that you might escape eternal death. After all, there are only two choices. We are all going to one place or the other.

You may be apparently alone and you may feel like nobody cares; your life may seem worthless in this wicked and troublesome world, but you are not alone. Jesus through the gift of the Holy Spirit and His angels are with you. His love for you is stronger than death. You may talk to Him about your loneliness and all your troubles. He will listen and answer.

Sometimes we cannot seem to see through the maze of the events that are happening to us—death of our loved ones, rejection by those we love the most—and it seems that no one cares. But God has His hand over it all: “Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God’s ideal for His children. Godliness—godlikeness—is the goal to be reached.” Education, 18. God is working out for you a far more wondrous future than you can even imagine. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28. Have faith in God.