You're Not Worthless

For anyone dealing with self-esteem issues, I hope and pray that this blog will help you see how God sees you.  In His eyes, you are perfect!  Here’s some scripture to prove it.

Genesis 1:26 & 27 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

In the 26^th and 27^th verses of the Bible, God has already declared that you are made in His image and after His likeness.  This was before the fall and before we needed Christ to redeem our sins.  Since sin entered the world, we need a savior to bring us back to perfection and unity with God.  That savior is Jesus Christ.  (For further reference; see Genesis 3, Romans 3:23, John 3:16, and John 14:6)  Accept Christ as your Lord and Savior, and the following will become true of you.

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.  The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

No matter what you have done in the past, accepting Christ wipes your slate clean and gives you a new future.   One of hope, knowing that nothing from your past can keep you away from salvation. 

1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”

God has chosen us.  We are God’s possession!  Why would a perfect God want to have something that is imperfect, broken, useless, or worthless?  Because He sees you as His perfect child who is like Him!

John 1:12 “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”

Ephesians 4:24 “And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

The best part about this whole deal is that the only thing you need to do to accept this new identity as a perfect, holy, righteous child of God, is to believe that Jesus is your Savior!

Ephesians 3:12 “(Christ Jesus our Lord), in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.”

Our faith in Jesus Christ alone gives us such a beautiful identity.  One of the many things that I love about our God is that you don’t have to be good enough for Him to accept you.  He accepts you through Christ.  Whether you feel that you aren’t attractive enough, smart enough, talented enough, you’re too big a failure, or anything else doesn’t matter to God, because Jesus was perfect.  With Jesus in your heart, God sees you as perfect too.  The insecurities just mentioned are all ones that I have struggled with in the past several years.  Honestly, this blog began as God comforting me and turned into the thing you’re reading now.  I hope this helps you as much as it did me!

If you don’t have Jesus in your heart, then all you have to do is pray and ask Him to be your Lord and Savior.  Personally, if God sees me as perfect, then all of my insecurities about how people view me become irrelevant.  THE LIVING GOD THAT CREATED THE WORLD AND DETERMINES YOUR ETERNITY CAN SEE YOU AS PERFECT!!  If that’s not absolutely incredible, then I don’t know what is.

Father, I pray that I would be able to see myself as you see me, perfect and created in your image.  Make these insecurities and failures stop governing how I see myself.  In you I am perfect.  You are all I will ever need and I am forever grateful for that.

They’re just words… until you accept Christ and let His image also be yours!