People’s Value

People’s Value

Bible: Luke 19:1-10

Reading

Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today (V.5).

As a teenager, Robert had a lot to deal with. His family was really poor, his parents had separated and were seeing other people, and his street seemed to attract fights and violence. He skipped school quite a few times and was difficult to handle. But when a friend was shot and killed, Robert
got a big wake-up call. He wanted to change his life, so he worked hard at school to improve his grades. The career advisor at the school didn’t think much of Robert and told him that no college or university would ever accept him. But Robert proved him wrong. He graduated from university a few years later and went back to work in schools. He decided to work with teenagers because, as he says, “Teachers saw me as a person of little value.” He didn’t want that to happen to others. Jesus views everyone as important. Zacchaeus was a greedy tax collector (LUKE 19:1-10). Jesus could have ignored him, but He saw him in the tree and called him by name. It’s important that as Christians we recognise others as people with value—and that we don’t look down on them because they’re weird, mean or getting bad grades. Do we see everyone as valuable to God? Even the ones we don’t like?

EVERYONE HAS VALUE BECAUSE EVERYONE

HAS BEEN MADE BY GOD.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries