When drawing up regulations, government agencies place a value on human life in order to weigh the cost versus the benefit of proposed rules and legislation. The EPA has valued a “stastical life” to be worth $6.9 million dollars. They believe the less a life is worth to the government, the less the need for restrictions on pollution.
I couldn’t begin to tell you how they determined the value of a life to be 6.9 million dollars and not sure I really care; however, I am certain I wouldn’t accept that amount of cash for any single member of my family, nor would anyone else — but it did make me reflect about the value of a soul in God’s eyes and it reminded me of something I once heard…
If someone handed you a crisp, new $100 bill would you take it? Of course you would! But what if you were walking down an alley and glanced down to see an old, wrinkled $100 bill laying in the drainage gutter. What if the $100 bill had a corner or two torn from it. What if it was muddy and wet? What if it was written on? What if it had been wasted on drugs or prostitution? Would you pick it up? Of course you would — it’s still has the same value of the crisp, new $100 bill.
You have tremendous value in God’s eyes. It doesn’t matter if you’re old and wrinkled. It doesn’t matter if you are muddy and wet. It doesn’t matter what you look like. It doesn’t matter where you’ve been or what you’ve done. You’re worth more than $100. You’re worth more than $6.9 million. You’re worth so much that God watched His own Son struggle and die on the cross so that you might live with Him forever. God is looking down on you and he is reaching for you — because you are so valuable to him.
www.bibledonate.org and www.fivesimplesteps.org
