Everyone has a price—just waiting for the highest bidder.
It may not be obvious at first. Many people don’t even know they have a price… until life presents them with the right offer.
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The real question is not if you have a price, but what your price is.
The price of a person could either be Jesus or money. These are the two gods in the world.
As Matthew 6:24 (NKJV) says:
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”
If your price is Jesus, you are safe. But if it is money, sooner or later, you will meet someone who can pay your price—and decide the course of your life.
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Delilah may not have ever thought she would betray her lover, the strongest man in her days, Samson.
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Sadly, she had a price waiting for the highest bidder. She probably didn’t even know that she had a price.
If someone had told her before the lords of the Philistines met her that she could betray her lover, she would probably have said no.
But then, the offer came.
The lords of the Philistines presented her with an irresistible offer. She may not have seen such money in her entire life. Probably, no one in her family had ever been that rich.
How much was she promised that was so enticing that she betrayed her lover?
Let’s do a little calculation.
Delilah was promised 1,100 pieces of silver from each of the five lords of the Philistines.
How much is that in Nigeria today?
5 × 1100 = 5500
This is the total number of pieces of silver promised by the lords of the Philistines.
A piece of silver now in Nigeria is between ₦3,300 – ₦3,800 per gram.
Let’s use the average of these two prices, which is ₦3,550 per gram.
A piece of silver (shekel) in Bible days is between 11–14 grams.
Let’s use the average here again, which is 12.5 grams.
1 piece of silver = 12.5 × 5500 = 68,750 grams
Now let’s convert this to naira:
68,750 × ₦3,550 = ₦244,062,500
This is a whopping ₦244 million naira.
Let’s see how much this amount will be in dollars.
Current silver value in USD is between $2.6 – $3.0 per gram.
Again, let’s use the average, which is $2.8.
So, one piece of silver will be:
12.5 × $2.8 = $35
Now multiply $35 by 5500 promised by the five lords of the Philistines:
$35 × 5500 = $192,500
So Delilah was promised about:
₦244 million
$192,500
Now think about this…
Do you think this money is not enticing enough for Delilah to do all she could to have it?
She may have lost sleep for days thinking about it—whether to do what the lords of the Philistines said or not.
Or she probably didn’t even think about it twice, but decided there and then to betray Samson.
If you were in Delilah’s position, what would you do?
Many of us reading this now may not have had this kind of money or even seen it in our entire lives. That is what makes it a serious temptation if someone offers it to you to do what is wrong.
The truth is, the money that has led many people to sin is not even close to this amount.
Some have compromised:
for far less money
- to lose their virginity
- to harm their own family
- to push drugs
For some, little offers like the latest iPhone are enough to take them off guard.
So the question we need to ask ourselves now is:
If such money is offered to you to sin, would you overcome that temptation?
This shows clearly what can happen to a man when Jesus is not the prize.
When money is the prize of a man, his beliefs and his life are on a shaky foundation. Because once a person who can pay that price shows up, everything will collapse—just like it happened to Delilah.
At the end of the day, life will test you.
Not with small things, but with the exact thing that matches your price.
And when that moment comes, you won’t rise above your value—you will fall to it.
So decide now, before the offer comes.
What is your prize?
Jesus or money?
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