Her True Worth: A 5-Day Planنموونە

Have you ever been so desperate to belong that you were willing to forfeit who you were in exchange for acceptance? This is where I slowly raise my hand and admit I have. Numerous times. I relied on popular opinion to assess my worth. I didn’t discuss my thoughts or share my feelings out of fear of rejection. I lived under the false banner that it’s better to be seen and not heard. I also believed the lie that I needed to be compliant and accommodating in order to be loved. I used to skid through life with surface-level friendships. I know now that I battle a deep-seated fear that if I were ever to truly allow someone to know me, they’d realize I wasn’t worthy of their love, and they’d leave me.

This fear is the rotten fruit produced through experiencing abandonment. In an attempt to avoid the sting of rejection, I tried to become someone else. Anyone else. Someone I thought might be worthy of love, because in my mind I wasn’t. I went through phases like all teenagers do. I blended in, behaved like the girls I wanted to be accepted by, and eventually achieved what I thought was the ultimate goal—attention and popularity.

Dear friend, popularity at the cost of your identity is a cheap trade. Don’t buy into it. . . .

To look upon our lives and believe we’re created with inherent value requires faith—because, more often than not, the world has a thousand reasons we shouldn’t believe this to be true. Thankfully, we can look throughout the Bible and see that God defines worth and value differently than the world. Scripture says, “We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).

Did you know that these jars of clay were essentially made of mud? Often what people might consider worthless God deems exquisite. I find it extraordinary that God made Adam from the dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7), and he placed his most valuable treasure within a vessel formed of the very same dirt and mud. The cross says everything you and I need to know about our worth and value to God.

Prayer

Father, thank you for creating me to be your treasure and for loving me so much that you sent your Son to die for me. Amen.