Life is worth more than man's mind can ever fathom. Life is not as cheap as what we've cheapened it to be. There's no equivalent comparison that can be made to Life.
Have you wondered why Life is one thing that only God can create?
Why did God give you Life? God never gives you anything that's without value.
Scientists have invented and created a whole lot; including human clones, but none has been able to invent or create Life. No man has created, none is creating and none will create Life. The world would have been in big trouble if man could create Life.
Because life is this delicate, it is expedient to have an understanding of its VALUE. When its value is not known, it'll be treated as worthless.
What on Earth makes a person pursue his desires at the expense of God's own desires?
What makes you defile and sell your body just for momentary pleasure and money? What makes you use you talents, skills and resources to promote worldliness? Why do you spend all your life chasing the world, forgetting that the creator of the world longs for you? Why do you get depressed and intimidated at your neighbour's 'success'?
I can summarize the answers to the very reason that, the Value of Life is not known to you.
Luke 12:23 GNB
[23] Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes.
Mark 8:36-37 KJV
[36] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
[37]Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
All our struggles in life are a result of the desire to make ends meet; but the funny thing is that we try to meet these ends at the expense of our lives. People don't care about what becomes of them, all they want are the temporary benefits of life.
The key to continuously enjoy the dividends of a thing, is to have that thing at your disposal and value it. You may have it but if value is not given it, you'll lose it.
You can't enjoy the full Potentials of your life if you don't give it the full value it deserves.
1 Peter 1:18-19 KJV
[18] Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with *corruptible things, as silver and gold,* from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
[19] *But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:*
In order for God to preserve the life of humanity, he gave up His son Jesus, allowing *His PRECIOUS BLOOD* to be shed on our behalves. This gives me a deep understanding of who I am to God; it tells me *I am one with, and equal to Christ.*
Jesus' life was taken so that I could have His life and when He rose up, I rose with Him and sat at God's right hand just as he did ( Eph. 1:20; 2:6; 1 Peter 3:22).
*Your life is as the life of Jesus Christ.* Just as Christ is, so are you on this Earth(1 John. 4:17). God's love for Jesus and You are equal (John 17:17).
Whenever you cheapen and devalue your life, you cheapen and devalue the sacrifice of Jesus. Your life has no material or immaterial equivalence, *except the blood of Jesus Christ Jesus.* The Gold and Silver of the world cannot buy you. God knew the value of those stones, "but they were and are no match for your Life."
They are perishables, "but Christ's blood is Imperishable." "What a Value!"
How have you devalued yourself?
You are esteemed, and exalted far above the principalities and offerings of this world.
"Nothing is equal to your life; not even the whole world (Mark 8:36, 37)."