So many of the problems we have in our world are due to people valuing things wrongly. I mean, if people valued love of others over power for themselves, just think of the difference that would make? Or if people valued relationships over possessions, how different would our world look?
But I’m conscious as I say that, that this problem is too intractable to be solved by simply re-educating people. Because most of these problems are to do with value, and value is not a logical thing. I can’t logically prove that a long marriage is more fun than a one night stand. I can think it, and I can teach it, but I can’t logically prove it.
Similarly I can’t prove that it’s better to give than to receive, or that losing your life for Jesus is actually the necessary step in finding it. I can’t prove any of these things. To grasp these things, a person actually has to have their eyes opened.
When it comes to questions of value, the only way there can be any true measure of it is if there is someone absolute, who sees truly what is valuable. For the average person who can conceive of none above themselves to make that decision, all that is left is opinion. Yet there is someone who is absolute and sees true, and that person is Jesus. If we would know what is truly valuable in this world, we must listen to Jesus.
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