What Is Anyone Really Worth?

So celebrities, sports stars, and Donald Trump and Bill Gates are all worth millions, perhaps even billions, yes? This is what the world would have you think anyway. But I ask you this: Are they really WORTH their money? I realize that this whole “worth” factor is actually the analysts discussing the assets' worth of these famed people; but the principle still stands that these people are referred to as being worth a certain amount of money. Maybe it just sounds cooler to say “Donald Trump is worth x amount”, rather than “Donald Trump's assets are worth x amount.”

If someone were to purchase, yes purchase, Donald Trump or LeBron James, how much would they have to pay? And if LeBron James or Donald Trump just up and DIED on them the next day - how much would we have to pay to bring them back to life? How much? Supposedly they're worth something - so shouldn't that amount of money be able to bring them back to life? Let me ask you something else. What about your mailman? Is he worth more or less than Donald Trump? And if he also died tomorrow - would it cost less to bring him back to life?

I ask you this because to call someone worth a certain amount of money is despicable. If a rich man died tomorrow, no man would be able to bring him back to life any more than they would a poor man, but the world would almost lead you to believe that people can be brought back to life - if the price is right. The price will NEVER BE RIGHT! Only God's price will ever be right. But in this day and age, so many of us have forgotten God's currency: Love, compassion, faithfulness, peace, grace. I would venture a guess that my mailman's life is so much fuller of God's currency than Donald Trump's is.

I've never been tempted to steal money from work. Not once. When I'm on the clock, money is a dirty, sticky, gruesome material that I'm forced to handle. And the most wonderful epiphany hit me one day as I was clearing out my till to count it: All this money is virtually worthless to God! HA! Take that, world!

So the next time you hear someone say, “So-and-so is worth x amount”, I would challenge you to look at them straight
and simply ask, “If they died tomorrow, could that worth bring them back to life?”