Greetings and Salutations,

    Pretty day in our neck of the woods.  Temperature in the 40’s, sunny, bit of a breeze all of which should help slowly melt the snow without causing too many floods.

    We do need to get the snow off the ground so the company that is going to cut down our diseased pine trees can do so; then we will get them off the hill side and sliced into lumber before the beetles start hatching and continuing onto other trees with their killing way.

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    What is the value of a man?

    “As of 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a human life at $9.1 million. Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration put it at $7.9 million — and the Department of Transportation figure was around $6 million. Are any of these the right answer?”  Frank Partnoy, from The Globalist 2012

    “In theory, a year of human life is priceless. In reality, it's worth $50,000.”  However, “Stanford economists have demonstrated that the average value of a year of quality human life is actually closer to about $129,000.”   Kathleen Kingsberry, Time Magazine 2008

    “At current prices, the average body is worth about $80,000 to the 'cadaver industry,' which finds lucrative uses for the roughly 130 pieces of body tissue that are extracted, sterilized, cut up, and put on the market.”  Touchstone Magazine 2008

    “If you take a dollar's worth of elements plus the value of your skin, you might be able to get $4.50, which we'll round up to $5, so you'll feel better about your chemical value.”   Thought company, internet site.

    Then of course life insurance companies have actuaries that help them determine what a person is worth over a period of time. 

    It also depends on the person’s financial worth, is a billionaire’s life in this world worth more than a teacher, police officer, doctor, fireman, etc?

    These values are based on the world’s measure of valuing a person, which usually means a monetary worth.

    We do hear of the great minds, people who do heroic things in defense of life having a great value to mankind and not necessarily monetary in nature, still is done with the world’s value system in mind.

    Some are valued by their ability to play a particular sport, some of whom receive 10’s of millions of dollars a year; when we translate to actual time performing they are making more in one appearance than most of us do in a week or even a month.

    But to those that sign the contract the athlete is worth it.

    We place the value of material things on what someone thinks it is worth and what someone is willing to pay for it. 

    A diamond may be worth millions of dollars to someone, but to me it isn’t, I can’t afford it and frankly have no interest if I could.  To me it has no value.

    Basically, the monetary value of something is what one person is willing to sell it for and another person is willing to buy it for; it may be worth a lot more to the seller than anyone is willing to pay.  Is it then worthless?

    No, it just means that the price is too high for those that are interested and have the ability to buy it.

    The value of most things lies in the eye of the beholder.

    How valuable is a mother, father, sibling?  Does it matter how they raise their children and the values they teach them?

    How valuable is a spouse?

    Those things are not measured by dollars and cents (for the most part.)  They are valued by a more emotional and how they are actually beneficial to us.  

    Then of course there is the spiritual value of a person.

    How valuable was Christ to the world when He was sentenced to death?

Mathew 27:9  KJV  “Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;”

    Thirty pieces of silver.

    But what is His value to us?

John 14:6  KJV  “ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

    We cannot buy or work our way into heaven, we can only have eternal life through Him.  To us He is our ticket into heaven and thus of enormous value to us spiritually.

    What is our value to God?

John 3:16-17  KJV  “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

    He gave His only Son.

    So, what really is His value to us?  How do we show it?

Titus 3:7-8  KJV  “ That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

⁸ This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.”

Later, Art (-: