You Are Valuable

Price Is Right

Have the group vote on the most expensive item. 3 Rounds

How do we decide how much something is worth?

How do we decide how much we are worth?

Luke 12:6–7 CSB

6 Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. 7 Indeed, the hairs of your head are all counted. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Jesus was talking to a huge crowd of people here, “many thousands”.

There were lots of different kinds of people in the crowd. Rich people and poor people, well-dressed people and not so well-dressed people, super athletic people and some who were good at sports at all.

There were people that felt like they weren’t important, maybe even worthless.

So Jesus told a story about sparrows.

Now, sparrows were the least of all birds in that time. One penny could get you two sparrows, and two pennies could buy you five. They were so insignificant that the trader threw in the fifth one for free.

The third wheel, the last picked, the fifth sparrow…the lowest of the low.

Many of those listen to Jesus that day felt like they weren’t good enough. They didn’t dress right, didn’t smell the same—they were just different.

But Jesus saw them quite differently.

He reassured the people that He knew every detail about them, even the number of hairs on their heads.

Christ let them know clearly that they truly mattered to Him.

We all feel like the fifth sparrow sometimes, but it’s important for us to understand that it’s only the world who whispers that devaluing lie. Christ valued even that last sparrow, but He values us much more. To Christ, we are significant. Like the song goes, “He knows my name. He knows my every thought. He sees each tear that falls and hears me when I call.”

If you feel like a fifth sparrow today and fear that you don’t matter, take courage and know that it’s not true.

You do matter.

You matter to the Creator of the Universe!

If He knows every hair on your head, whether many or few, He surely cares about your life today.