Immeasurable Value

I am often asked to teach at churches or fill in for a pastor on a Sunday. It is a great honor, and I have a couple sermons ready to go any time. I was blessed this spring to teach at Walk Church in Point Loma about the work of Pregnancy Care Clinic, and I integrated sermon #4 into my presentation. I like to stay behind and answer questions. A young woman approached me saying, “I am generally pro-life, but why do Christians care about the unborn so much?” She told me she thought abortion should be legal, and she did not agree that God cared about the unborn. No explanation of how the unborn was not any different than those of us who are born was making a difference in her mind. I asked her, “What is the purpose God had for your life?” She told me she had no purpose from God. Then in an effort to dismiss what I was sharing with her, she told me her mom tried to abort her, and there was no reason or value if she were alive or if she were dead. It is not common to hear an abortion survivor story. I suggested that her testimony was unique and could be used by God to touch many lives. She did not like that prospect, and quoted part of Esther 4:14. She said she didn’t have to follow through with any purpose from God for her life. It would just pass on to someone else. The situation began to concern me that she might be contemplating suicide. I shifted my attention to her own value and purpose, and the love God had for her. If she did not recognize her own value in God’s sight, how could she see value in the unborn?

Does Ester 4:14 allow us to ignore God’s calling?

Mordacai’s challenge to Esther is not an excuse for the faithful to dismiss the call on their life. God put Esther in a unique position to accomplish His promise of protection for the remnant of Israel. Mordacai said, “Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this.” Mordacai is not excusing Esther, He is pointing out the extraordinary plan God made to put her in this unique situation. It is a near rebuke to Esther because there was no one else close to being qualified to deliver that request to the King.

Jesus explains how we are valued and God’s will in our life is active when He said, “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from the Father’s will. But the very hairs on your head are numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are more valuable than many sparrows.” MATT 10:29-31

If God give us a calling, then we have value to Him!

I love that song, “His Eye is on the Sparrow.” These small birds were captured and sold by the pair for a farthing (1/126 of a day’s salary each). The Sparrow would be the cheapest bird to buy for food in Jesus’ time. The implication is something that has been deemed by humanity to be unvaluable has significant value to our creator. How much more valuable are we to that same creator?

If God notices and has a plan for EVERY sparrow, then it follows that He will notice and have a plan for every human life. The Word tells us He intricately wove us together in our mother’s womb. The study of DNA demonstrates how we were designed, in detail, at the moment of conception. God’s creative process, and by extension His valuation of us comes into being when 46 chromosomes from the mother and father join together. However, our value was determined before that time! God’s eternal nature establishes our value in Genesis 1:1! His plan for us was written when God began it all! David said, You recorded every day of my life in Your book before a single day had passed. Ps. 139:16

Jesus told a wonderful parable about a man who found a pearl in a field. He went and sold all he had to purchase the field in order to acquire the pearl. This parable is not about what we must do to get into heaven, rather Jesus is speaking of the pearl He found in us. Jesus gave everything He had to acquire us. The fundamental value of Human Life to God is so great that the Creator took on the form of His creation. He lived a perfect life, and paid the price of our punishment with His life. He did this because He loves us! HE LOVES US!!!! Is there any greater value than that? The value of a human life should never be determined without God. Humans apply value subjectively. They valued the sparrow at a farthing. And yet, God’s eye is on the sparrow. His value of every human life (born and unborn) was written in Gen 1, and is measured in John 3:16. Christians care so much about abortion because the value of human life is fundamental to our faith.

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