Recently, on Facebook, a person that I love and care about said that she felt worthless. And it's not the first time that I come across an alarming statement like that one. For a while, I wasn't able to get those words out of my mind. I thought of them in random moments throughout the week. I thought about how to respond to such words and I thought about how the Lord would respond. Because truthfully, though friends and family try their best to boost and encourage the person with how worthy and special they think they are, those words can only go so far and can only last so long. They are important but they are not enough.
It is in Jesus Christ, the One who is worthy of every word of praise and honor that we find our worth.
He is the One who loved so passionately and deeply that he gave his life over to be despised and rejected. He is the One so worthy that he could have called thousands of angels to his rescue. But he didn't because rescuing us was the reason he came in the first place.
To be rescued, we must see our need for help. If a hand is extended to us we must make the choice to reach out and take it. It will take our complete trust and realizing that we are helpless to avoid certain death.
"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become the children of God." John 1:12
Receiving Jesus. That is all. Not rejecting him because you doubt his ability or because you want to try and rescue yourself. Not relying on the praise and adoration of other people as a way to feel like you are loved and cared about. But realizing that no one loves you or cares for you more than God. Simply receive Jesus. That is the way that God had it planned from the beginning. It is the only true way for you to find worth. It is in God's beautiful and sacrificial love for you.
You can be whole.
Everything can be made right between you and God.
You can have true joy.
You can find forgiveness and freedom from the burden of your guilt.
And you can know that God has given you eternal life and you will live with him forever. (John 3:16)
God wants so much for you to turn to him. He wants to help you, to give you true understanding and true wisdom. The God who made you wants so much to have a close relationship with you. He wants you to have a new heart with opened eyes to see the lies you have believed and the harmful thoughts you have lived with for so long. He wants to lead you along a good path and show you how much better you can live your life if you live it his way. No one knows you better than he does.
It shouldn't be a surprise that without God we feel worthless. What purpose do we have apart from God working in our lives? It is when we go our own way and turn away from God that we become worthless.
"All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." Romans 3:12
Turn away from worthlessness and sin and turn to Jesus who "made himself nothing" (Phil. 2:7) so that he could give the greatest gift to you. The gift of eternal life.
"In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him." 1 John 1:9
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