Finding your Worth in Christ

Hi Friends, I am taking a couple of weeks off from my Numbers study series. I just wanted to share something that God was reminding me of.

I like being productive, and there is nothing wrong in that as such, but it can have a negative side to it if we tend to tie our productivity to our value. This is something that has been a challenge for me over the years and I have grown in this area. I have and am continuing to surrender to God my misplaced sense of tying my productivity to my usefulness. And God has been enabling me to let go of this and look to him and rest my value in him and who he has made me to be. As I said, it is a journey, I am not there yet but I am definitely not where I used to be.

As I pondered on this, I want to ask you my friends a question; Is there something in your life you tie your value/worth or usefulness to. Is it what you can do, what you can offer to someone, is it tied to a relationship?

The enemy always wants us to have a skewed perception of how we look at our own worth. Because when we have that misplaced sense of our worth, he creeps in between and makes us look elsewhere so we can take our eyes off God. Our worth comes from who we are in Christ. We are loved by Him, we are redeemed, we are His children for whom he gave his life so that we can be reconciled to the Father. That is how God sees us, worthy of the greatest sacrifice. And that is how we should view ourselves too, through the eyes of our Lord.

The reality is that at times even when we might know the truth of who we are in Christ, it can be hard to live from this truth when those near and dear to us may not necessarily make us feel of worth unless we offer something, provide for them or play a certain role in their life. And although hard, it is in those moments that we need to speak the truth of who we are in God to ourselves. If we rely on our emotions to speak to us, that is not truth. God’s words is truth. And so, even when we are not feeling it, we speak it. I have found that when I remind myself of God’s truth and speak his words, especially at those times when my feelings are far removed from what scripture says, as I keep reading and speaking it, my feelings and emotions begin to realign with what God says about my identity and worth in Him.

Jesus, his self-worth wasn’t based on the opinion of others, remember that there were many who did not believe in him, many who were opposed to him and wanted to get him killed. If his self-worth was resting on how popular or accepted, he was, what would happen? Would it change the reality that he was the Son of God, No. His identity was that he was the son of God irrespective of what others thought of Him. And the same way our worth is not rooted in the opinion of others, instead in the unwavering love of God.

Here are some scriptural affirmations that will remind us of our own worth/value in Christ.

I am a child of God – Gal 3:26-27 “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.”

I am God’s special possession, chosen by Him – 1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

I am God’s masterpiece – Psalm 139:13-14 “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”

I am loved by God – John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

I am Redeemed – Eph 1:7 “In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.”

If you can relate to the feeling of tying your worth to someone or something, take a moment, pause and be still before God. Ask Him to reveal to you how he sees you. And I pray that he will awaken your spirit to the truth of how he sees you, with so much love and that you are valuable as you are to Him and to His kingdom.

Prayer: Lord, we thank you for who you are and what you have done for us. We thank you for carefully creating each one of us. Your word reminds us of your love for us that goes beyond anything we can fully comprehend. When our thoughts do not align with the truth of what your word reveals to us about how we should see ourselves, help us to abide in you, to rest in the truth of your word and character instead of striving for significance or acceptance in the eyes of someone or something of this world. Lord, we humble ourselves and rely on you for strength, comfort and assurance when feelings of unworthiness or self-doubt erode our thoughts. Help us to fight those thoughts and emotions and even the harsh words of others. Thank you for loving us just the way we are and always being there for us. Amen.

God Bless.