My, Devotion to Him #326
First and foremost, there will always be something for us to work on within ourselves. We can never be the “perfect” human because we are subjects of sin. The world we live in is sinful, and we are born sinners. We are naturally born with faults and blemishes that continue to grow and make themselves prominent. There are ways in which we change how much of these things are evident by how we live and choose to grow through ethics, morals, values, and so forth. But naturally, as humans, there will still be struggles that we must learn to confront and ultimately conquer.
The battle of the mind is within us all and will always play a vital part in our lives as this helps us make decisions, and our brain is actively always telling us something. We are often confronted with questions such as “Do we have worth?” “Am I worthy of this?” “Am I worthy of that?” “Who am I?” The list goes on almost endlessly. This one struggle plays an immense part in how we view the world, act in the world, and live in the world.
Many try to find their worth through occupation, appearance, living style, materialism, and relationships. But we find that single-handedly or collectively, any of these still somehow evades the one thing we seek: self-worth.
Because we persist in this struggle, we drive harder to obtain it. We look for new and better jobs, ones that come with benefits, hoping that they will convince us that we are worth something. In fairness, we should continue to try and expand our horizons. We should want to be worth more than a body at work and be shown such. However, the worth we seek is much deeper than the kind that can be acquired through this type of endeavor.
There are those who choose to change their lifestyle through minimalist designs, urbanism, digital, corporate, active, new house, new city, and abroad living. Many people have found a fresh outlook on life and renewed optimism for the future with a change like this, but there is still this nagging feeling that we are not completely whole in “who we are” and “what we are worth.”
Some have chosen to change their appearance through makeup, hairstyles, wardrobe cleaning, surgery, and weight loss. Results from this have shown people see themselves as younger and healthier and feel they’ve reclaimed youthfulness and have new confidence in life. These changes can certainly bring that, and many are appropriate for specific reasons. However, on the topic of “worth,” there are layers behind that straightforward issue, and changing one’s appearance is more compared to sprucing up the surface of a yard instead of dealing with the soil, which affects the environment of our life.
Even changing relationships, building new connections, reconnecting with old friends, and spending more quality time with family can undoubtedly increase one’s sense of worth and impact any life in which one experiences new-found happiness.
However, we find that relationships are always on a scale at the end of the day. Some have stayed true for years, as I can attest to with my brother-in-law and myself. We’ve always been great friends, even before I married his sister. We were at a time thick as thieves. This is not to suggest that our connection has been broken but rather that life has changed for us. I live in a different state now, and our jobs can make it harder for us to connect. I’ve found when that moment comes, we pick right off where we ended and sail as if no time has passed us by. Now, I could never hold my own self-worth firmly in our relationship as we often don’t speak for weeks at a time vocally but have messaged each other. However, in this sense, my worth would seem relatively small due to the amount of time we actually spend connecting.
My wife and I could never hold our self-worth to each other, even though in marriage, it is essential that we value and show each other that they are of great worth to us as Christ has commanded. Though we should not find our worth in the eyes and opinions of others instead, we should know what our worth actually is to begin with.
Our self-worth must be addressed. If not, we will continue through life looking for an answer through solutions that only handle small factors of worth but never address the actual core that we are desperately pursuing. There is only One who can give us the solution and completely satisfy us in the way we’ve been hungering for.
Verse Passage: 1 Peter 1:18-20 “knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you” – ESV.
You’re worth it all to God, the very One who made the entire universe, has declared you more valuable than gold and silver. He chose not to use beautiful gems and the world’s riches to show what you and your life are worth, as man has been known to change the value of any object throughout history. Instead, God chooses His Son’s actual holy, divine, and precious blood. Through this blood, He will cleanse you, transform you, and bring you into His family for eternity. Even with the risk that you may not treasure such an extraordinary sacrifice. Even with the risk that you may reject Him and the offering that has been given. He knew all the faults you would have before you were born; He knew how irrational and foolish it sounds to give up a Son for a people who haven’t even guaranteed to receive anything yet. He knew you were not perfect and would mess up. Yet, with all this information, He still proclaimed you precious enough to proceed. That is your self-worth. It was worth a living God, the maker of Heaven and Earth, to give up and allow His Son to die a brutal death for you so that you can be set free from this wretched world that ensnares you. That you can be free from the bondage that your body is bound to. You can find freedom, liberty, happiness, joy, love, and worth on a scale that can never be matched apart from Him. He knew your worth before anyone had a chance to say otherwise before you took your first breath; He knew!
Your validation and acceptance need not come from man because God’s already decreed it so! You are redeemed, covered, and accepted by the blood of Christ. Today, stand up and declare, “You are worthy, no matter your faults, no matter your mistakes. You’ve been bought by the blood of the lamb. The One who went against all the rules, all rational and logical thinking, to announce that you are worth more than anything to Him.”
STOP letting the devil, his demons, dominions, powers, and people speak anything else over you. They seek to hurt, break, and destroy you! If you don’t know your self-worth, you will continue to stand down and remain what the world thinks; nothing. God alone has made you, and God alone has the absolute first and final say, and that will always be; You are worth everything!
God bless,
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