Status and value are co-mingled in most of our minds. But if our value is not in what we do but in who or whose we are, then status and value can be distinguished and separated. And I believe they must be. Within the Christian community, value is determined by our standing before God in the Savior Jesus. Value is eternal and imperishable.
Roles come and go.
The page in the Senate is just as valuable as the most senior senator, but their roles are quite different. There is a twofold tragedy when we confuse our roles with our value. Apart from being simply untrue, that supposition sets up an unconscious competition that can subvert healthy role functions and organizations. Suddenly my worth is no longer in who I am, or for the Christian, whose I am. Now it rests in what I do or where I stand in the organization.