How much do you pay for her?
Is it worth a few drinks and her taxi ride home to charm her into making a stop by your place on the way home?
Or maybe it’s worth sticking a few billz in her unmentionables so that you’ll have some “action” tonight?
Perhaps she’s worth absolutely nothing because you can simply google the video and images you need to feel satisfied.
But the truest value of our worth, for both men and women, is this: Life, itself.
It’s actually clicking for me for the first time in a real way about why this is so true. You see, God gave up himself- his flesh, his son- as the ultimate act of love to show how deeply he cares for us.
Try to think of someone you’d be willing to die for.
It’s probably someone close to you, that you care for on deep levels, that has made an impact in your life, that you want the best for, that you say deserves to live beyond yourself, someone you ultimately love. This is, if you even think you know someone worth dying for. Yet, God showed that every. single. one of us. is worth the ultimate act of love. Even though we betray him. Even though we mess up and make mistakes. Even though we can be awful toward his other loved ones. And even though we deny him. But it’s already been done.
He paid the ultimate price.
He died so that we might see his perfect, steadfast love and accept it into our hearts and model our life around the truth it offers us.
We are worth life.
So then what about women? We are worth a true gentleman laying down his life, committing to love us every day (even when we are cranky/ annoying/ stubborn/ emotional), wanting to know us intimately, seeking first our hearts, and knowing that in return the greatest reward is the steadfast and deep love we are called to give in return. This is modeled in marriage, true marriage. And, thus, awakens my realization of why “true love waits.” Because the truest love is Jesus Christ’s sacrifice. And I will wait for the man that knows my worth in the same way I define it.
To the ladies: How you define your worth is the exact value you’ll settle for from men. What is the price for your love?
To the gentlemen: Think about that word- gentleman- and analyze if you fit the definition, “a chivalrous, courteous, or honorable man.” And I’d venture to say that any love you can buy is cheap, temporary, and ultimately unsatisfying. Know that you should also value yourself as worth more than money or any temporary high, and that the women in your life will replicate the value of love you give to them. (And your heavenly Father loves you more than any person on this earth ever could. Explore that love.)
Admittedly, it’s been quite a journey for me to come to know my worth; so, on many levels this blog post is really a self-check. But as I share this journey with you, I want you to know the value that your life has because we are all worth more. Open up your heart and examine any areas that you may be selling yourself short in and take it to the Lord in prayer. And let us remember that those around us, even the worst of the worst, are worth the very same price we were paid for by Christ.
