What is it that’s Valuable in Each of Us?

Learning from Prince of Egypt’s Through Heaven’s Eyes

A single thread in a tapestry
Though its color brightly shine
Can never see its purpose
In the pattern of the grand design
And the stone that sits on the very top
Of the mountain’s mighty face
Does it think it’s more important
Than the stones that form the base?

So how can you see what your life is worth
Or where your value lies?
You can never see through the eyes of man
You must look at your life
Look at your life through Heaven’s eyes

A lake of gold in the desert sand
Is less than a cool fresh spring
And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy
Is greater than the richest king
If a man lose ev’rything he owns
Has he truly lost his worth?
Or is it the beginning
Of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man?
In wealth or strength or size?
In how much he gained or how much he gave?
The answer will come
The answer will come to him who tries
To look at his life through Heaven’s eyes

And that’s why we share all we have with you
Though there’s little to be found
When all you’ve got is nothing
There’s a lot to go around
No life can escape being blown about
By the winds of change and chance
And though you never know all the steps
You must learn to join the dance
You must learn to join the dance

So how do you judge what a man is worth?
By what he builds or buys?

I love this song because of it’s teaching and focus on the value of each individual.

Society (and it can vary by community or country) often causes us to value specific attributes and specific types of people. Certain attributes are viewed as less important. But all types of people and all types of values and attributes are needed.

14 For the body is not one member, but many…

17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

19 …And if they were all one member, where were the body?

20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary… (1 Corinthians 12)

We are all needed on this Planet Earth. We are all of value. Just because we don’t see our own worth doesn’t mean we don’t have any. Sometimes, we can see better if we look through Heaven’s eyes.