Jehovah Values You

First, the Bible directly teaches that God sees worth in each of his servants. For example, Jesus said: "Do not two sparrows sell for a coin of small value? Yet, not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father's knowledge. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore, have no fear: You are worth more than many sparrows." (Matthew 10:29-31) Consider what those words meant to Jesus' first-century listeners.

We may wonder why anyone would buy a sparrow. Well, in Jesus' day the sparrow was the cheapest of the birds sold as food. Notice that for one coin of small value, a purchaser got two sparrows. But Jesus later stated that if a person was prepared to spend two coins, he got, not four sparrows, but five. The extra bird was added as though it had no value at all. Perhaps such creatures were worthless in the eyes of men, but how did the Creator view them? Said Jesus: "Not one of them [not even the one added in] goes forgotten before God." (Luke 12:6, 7) Now we may begin to see Jesus' point. If Jehovah places such value on a single sparrow, of how much greater worth is a human! As Jesus explained, Jehovah knows every detail about us. Why, the very hairs of our head are numbered!

Our hairs numbered? Some might assume that Jesus was being unrealistic here. Just think, though, about the hope of the resurrection. How intimately Jehovah must know us in order to recreate us! He values us so much that he remembers every detail, including our genetic code and all our years of memories and experiences. Numbering our hairs -of which the average head grows about 100,000-would be a simple feat by comparison.

Next time: What Does Jehovah See In Us?

Draw Close To Jehovah,2002