What gives us our worth? How do we determine our worth in life, and especially in our own estimate? How we answer that question shapes how we live. Increasingly, we are witnessing a societal transformation to a meritocratic age. Increasingly, we are adopting a utilitarian view of life. We value life according to how useful we see that life. Unborn infants seem to have little value, so we can justify aborting the unborn. Children with an extra chromosome, children diagnosed as being Down Syndrome, the elderly and perhaps the poor, are not highly valued in society; consequently, they can be jettisoned, cast aside or even killed. When such a utilitarian view of life becomes entrenched in society, it allows for the creation of the Gulags, camps such as Auschwitz, Planned Parenthood clinics and so-called “right-to-die” laws. At the individual level, men and women begin to gauge their worth only by whether they achieve lofty goals, goals that are sometimes unrealistic. There is another view of your worth that is not often heard today, though it should be shouted out from every church and from every Christian home. You are of inestimable worth. You are so highly valued that God sent His Son to take your punishment upon Himself. He is “the Son of God, who loved [you] and gave himself for [you] and gave himself for [you]” [see GALATIANS 2:20b]. Christ Jesus “gave Himself as a ransom for all” [1 TIMOTHY 2:6a].