In the ancient world, you could buy a slave for thirty pieces of silver.  Judas was paid 30 pieces of silver for betraying Christ-the price of a slave.  Many people sell Jesus for less than that.

What is Jesus worth to you?  Judging by the words and actions of many, Jesus is worthless.  If you do not believe that Jesus  is the Son of God as he said he was, then Jesus has little value to you.  As C.S. Lewis once wrote: 

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg–or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse….”

So what do your actions say that Jesus is worth to you and to your family?  What valuation have you placed upon Jesus according to the actions evidenced by your everyday life.

God allows us freely to put any price on Jesus we want.  To Judas, it was thirty pieces of silver.  To some, it is a good job or social approval.  To many, the value is nothing.  What value have you set?

There is a negative to setting a low price on Jesus.  The price we set on Jesus is the price we set on our own soul.