What value a life?
If
you listen to the commoninators and the media, it sounds like in terms of monetary
value, it’s worth little and dispensable. However as the liberal government is about to hand down its first
budget, one needs to have a thick skin.
I know there’s a lot of words and thoughts being tossed around, to
enable the government to deliver its first term budget!
First
term budgets are nourish harsh and to be fair to the treasurer I would not want
to balance the budget of the Australian government. However it seems the current priority of the government
is to delivery on its promise to deliver a surplus budget and stopping the boats
at the expense of other promises and verbal agreements made before the election.
Some
recent discussions indicate that the government at best devalues the lives of
people with chronic health issues, the frail, disabled or elderly. It appears
one’s value is measured by their perceived effective on the economy.
However
the bible gives a different perspective on human life. It records the value of
a person is above all else. The prophet Jeremiah, tells us it was God who
formed us in the womb, and He knew us before we were born . . . (even before
sin had entered into the world). Psalm 139 tells us we are fearfully and
wonderful made and Genius records that we were created in the image of God and
when God had completed creation he was pleased.
I
do not believe we were created to die. I believe decay, disease, death and
disability entered the world at the moment of the fall. It was at that moment that all
men became diseased, not just those whom the world views as diseased,
as recorded in Romans 3:23. In his
wisdom God designed a rescue plan, he sent his only Son to die for us so no one should perish.
Jesus
died both for the Jews and the Genitals, Paul tells us. To me that means God
values every life, born and unborn. Our value is not measure by some figure the
government deems a productivity level.
Our worth can money it costs for us to spend our days on earth. Our worth is measured by eternal love of the
one who created us.
As
the budget looms and mere mortals toss around words without thoughts and the
news media feeds us what they want us to believe, you have a choice. To value
yourselves as what mortals suggest or to believe the well chosen words of those
would created you, despite the present of decay. My suggestion is the value of life is LOVE
itself.
