As I was driving home today, I was noticing all the political signs in yards. Don’t worry, I am not going to try to sway anyones votes, I just was noticing them as I was driving. Anyway, it made me think about how every election we seem to be ask if we want to raise our taxes to fund raises for local government employees, or for a new building project, etc. That thought lead me to remember something I told some people a few years back – there are some jobs that I (as a taxpayer) can not pay someone for the value or worth they bring, so we (as taxpayers) have to pay them fairly and that is all we can do. Examples of jobs like that are teachers, police officers and firefighters. As a citizen I can not pay someone enough to mold the next generation educationally, to run toward the bad guys or into the fire. In the same regard, the people that take those jobs are not solely in them for the money, they are in them because they want to help others and better society.
Jesus’s death for my sins on the cross is the ultimate example of that. I can not pay, or repay, Jesus what He did and does for me. There is not enough money or right living that can repay Jesus. Jesus did not die on the cross expecting to be repaid either. Jesus came, lived, and died for me because He wants to see me forgiven and see me in Heaven. His life plan was to die for the world’s sin. There was no referendum, no election, no mass of supportive volunteers, just Jesus on the Cross dying for my sin.
So, remember when you look at Jesus (and other people too) that their value is not found in what they are paid, or even what you can pay them or pay them to do. Their value and worth is found in what they do for you without concern for themselves, what they do for society where it is bettered, and what they invest their lives not their retirement plan in.
In the end, it is vital to remember that you can not repay Jesus, you can not buy or even “live” your way into even. Your best day, your best actions, your best intentions are not worthy of admittance into heaven. There is only one way to Heaven, and that is through Jesus’s blood shed on the cross paying for your sins. That my friend is a gift beyond value or worth.
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