Agnes Krocha
The other day I was traveling in a bus and my co-passenger was a man, I presume, in his late 40s or early 50s. He began to talk and commented that these days’ people who hold government jobs are the ones leading golden lives. The reason being a government job is the key to getting money and without money even an educated person is worthless, according to him. While empathizing with him about the problem of unemployment in our land, my heart cringed over his attitude towards a person’s worth, which reflects the attitude of majority of our people today. We have placed too much value on money that our society, in a sense, has become a valueless society. We have stooped down to a level where we consider people who have lots of money as people of greater worth than those who have less money.
Money has become our worth tag. True, it is almost impossible to imagine life without money in our present day materialistic society. But have we not made money ‘larger than life’? Money is not everything and it never will be. There will come a time when money just won’t count but the worth of a person will remain. Money can indeed buy a lot for us, it can make our lives more comfortable, it can give us worldly status, it can make us powerful people, it can aid us in spreading the Gospel and do a lot of good things. But if we think money determines our worth, we’ve got it all wrong. For the heart of the matter is truly in the heart.
A person’s worth can never be determined by the things outside of him or her. I like this fact that when God measures a man He puts the tape around the heart. The real person is what is within the heart. Your worth comes from what’s in your heart. You are worth your heart’s content! No wonder the Lord does not look at the things man looks at, as in 1 Samuel 16: 7, but He looks at the heart!
