When Worth Is Reversed

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Isaiah 5:20

This has stayed with me.

All I could think about was the moment I knew I was pregnant, how everything in me shifted in an instant. I can’t describe what it felt like to know a new life was growing inside of me. 

And yet, my daughter would have been considered less than a puppy in this woman's eyes. (dog, cat & gerbil owner here, so don’t think I don’t love or value my furbabes.)

When people can treat babies as disposable things while puppies spark sympathy, that exposes the moral blindness that has drenched our world. 

What makes this terrifying isn’t that the morality is gone.

It’s how completely it’s been flipped, tilted, and thrown into a tumbler.

The empathy is still there. The care is still there. Love and kindness still exist. But worth has been misplaced, and humanity has been dehumanized. That kind of chosen blindness doesn’t happen by accident or overnight. It is subtle, deceptive, and purely demonic.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5

“Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14

“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Luke 1:41

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalms 139:13–16

In my Blot | Machah | Exaleiphó article, I talk about how God doesn’t write our names in the Book of Life after we come to Him. Rather, our names are already there, from the moment He knitted us together, because we are beloved, valued, worthy, ordained, anointed, and wanted.

Life, being “allowed” to live, should never have gotten to the point of being a dinner table discussion or placed on a ballot.

Is your moral compass tilted by this world, or shaped by God? And when the two stand in opposition, which one do you follow?

© Jane Isely