For some reason you never feel like you are enough. You feel like you will never measure up - always comparing yourself to the people you see while allowing their opinions to control you. Now you let your beauty and self worth be defined by the world.
The terms confidence, self-esteem and self-worth are all words that have posed a major problem in my life. Ultimately, I allowed others to destroy the lens in which I saw myself and replace it with their own tainted perception. It is crazy how easy it is to allow instagram likes and followers to determine your worth. It is so easy to compare yourself to pictures and lifestyles you see on the internet.
I know how it feels to experience ultimate brokenness from things that have occurred in your life, in your past. I know how it feels to receive a compliment and deep down believe the complete opposite. I know what it feels like to have all these thoughts and feelings wage war in your head.
But, guess what? There is hope. You are not alone. There is a loving Father above who thinks that you are to die for, literally. He sent His only son to die the most painful death JUST so that we may be free and saved by His grace. The same God who created the heaven and the earth is the same God that thought His creation wouldn’t be complete and perfect without you and me.
I know it is difficult not to get consumed by how we look and if it measures up to what we see on the internet or what is expected from others. But don't you know that you are made in the image and likeness of God?
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. GENESIS 1:27
GOD'S TRUTHS
Let’s try to forget what other people think and disregard the world's false perception of perfection. Let’s focus on our identity in Christ and meditate on the truth.
YOU ARE CHOSEN AND APPOINTED
The world will rank and define you based on what you do, what you accomplish and where you are in life. You are not defined by worldly possessions and what you have or have not achieved. You are defined by God. A God who knew you - before you were conceived and even before the world came to be - chose you and set you apart.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.” JEREMIAH 1:5
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, EPHESIANS 1:4
You didn’t have to go searching high and low for Jesus. He came looking for you and He chose you. Even before you were created, you were chosen and appointed. That can’t be taken away from you by anything or anyone.
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. JOHN 15:16
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 1 PETER 2:9
YOU ARE ENOUGH
There are points in our lives where we feel as though we aren't enough. Somehow, you juggle in between who you are, your wishes of who you want to be and what people tell you you should be. Being wedged in the middle of these things can bring you sadness, shame, pain and hurt. The truth is, the information you are receiving is from an unreliable source. Chasing after the things of this world will only bring forth disappointment. What you are 'missing' is found in Jesus.
You are more than enough to the Father. He could have wiped out this world and decided that he will start fresh with sinless humans, but he didn't. He looked at you and he looked at me and said that he wouldn't want a world without us. He said that we are worth it. Even though we may not be enough to other people, we are enough to Jesus Christ. He laid down his life just because we are enough.
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ROMANS 5:8
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. PSALMS 23:1-3
YOU ARE ACCEPTED
I am sure everyone HATES being rejected and that causes us to do things out of our norm to avoid rejection. Acceptance only comes from Jesus Christ. He has never and will never reject you. He accepts you just the way you are. He doesn't require you to be perfect. No matter what you do, He accepts you.
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ROMANS 8:34
Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God. ROMANS 15:7
God chose you. He appointed you. He accepts you. You are enough to Him. The world does not define your worth nor does it define your identity. Your identity is found in Christ and you are worth everything to Him.
Prayer:
Lord, You knit me together in my mother’s womb before I was even made known to the world. You said that I was made in Your image and in Your likeness. You said that I am fearfully and wonderfully made. When You look at me, You deem me a masterpiece. Surely a masterpiece is more than enough. Heavenly Father, forgive me for all the times where I have been unhappy and questioned your marvelously designed creation. For You are God and You make no mistakes. All my imperfections to the world, are made perfect in You.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.
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