Priceless People

The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: "Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in." Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them. Mark 10:13-15 The Message

Perhaps Jesus is trying to say..."We don't value people the same way, you and I.  You see price tags and social status.  I see stories, relationships, priceless jewels in every single child of God." 
Think about this for a minute.  Have you ever been made to feel like you have a blank price tag on you because your worth less. 

Do you think the society now values people differently than the way Jesus valued people?

I was talking with a former classmate lastnight and we were discussing our 30th reunion that is coming up this weekend.  We were discussing that we probably wouldn't attend because the people that were attending didn't want to hang out with us back in high school so why would we want to hang out with them now.  She introduced me to her husband and he kind of chuckled when I said about the reunion what she had obviously already said to him.  We explained that we weren't in their "click or group" because she grew up on the "wrong side of the rail road tracks" in other words she grew up in the country and anyone that took the bus or grew up on the east side of the tracks went to one elementary school while the rest of us that lived on the west side of the tracks went to another one.   I went to the other school on the west side of town but because my parents didn't have what was considered a "prestigious" job - he did manual labor I was not in that click.  So even 30 years ago there was the stigma of not being "good enough". 

We need to find ways to close the gap and be more tolerable of people around us.  Love people with God's Love.  All God want's us to understand is that we were bought with price - an extreme price.  One so extreme, in fact, that it cancelled out all other figures ... took off the price tags for good and made us ALL of equal and enormous worth.

Does this mean you have to like everyone?  We are to LOVE everyone, even if we don't like what they are doing or what they stand for.  We should show God's love to them no matter what walk of life they come from, who their parents are or how much money they have or don't have. 

Luke 10:25-27
Just then a religion scholar stood up with a question to test Jesus. "Teacher, what do I need to do to get eternal life?"   He answered, "What's written in God's Law? How do you interpret it?"  He said, "That you love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and muscle and intelligence—and that you love your neighbor as well as you do yourself."

Your living mission is to sift out the attitudes of your heart that cause you to put price tags on things that were never meant to have price tags, and to evaluate your own way of measuring worth." 

We need to check our attitudes towards those less fortunate than us or those that treat us with disgrace. 
In God's eyes we are ALL PRICELESS!  Do you look at other's through Christ Eyes?