What’s the Measure of a Man’s Worth?

Is it how much money he has, how many homes he owns, how many companies he has formed and boards he sits on?

Is it the degrees he has attained? Is it the esteem he receives for the resource of knowledge he is amongst his peers?

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Is it the skill in sports? Or his strength in contest? Perhaps his winning strategy in combat?

To what degree does lack of charisma or integrity tarnish any of these?

How can we compare the one who can best snap the ball to the one who can best handle the scalpel to the one who can repair your car with a quick and inexpensive tweak?

Some titles are born into, others bought.

Beauty can be natural or applied: both are no more than skin deep.

Yet, fortunes and souls are paid for the chance to be wrapped in one of these.

Jesus said, “For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Mark 8:36 NKJV).

Men have said some good things about the worth of a man.
“There will always be people who don’t know your worth; make sure you’re never one of those people.”
― David Castain

“True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes

“A person’s worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

What does Jesus think a man’s worth is? Well…He gave His life for it.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life,” (John 3:16 NKJV).

“I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly,” (John 10:10 NKJV).

I am and you are worth the universe to Him.