SELF-WORTH
Discovering Your God-Given Value
Understanding your value in God’s eyes is foundational to living a fulfilled and purposeful life. Here are some key aspects to consider:
1. Created in His Image
- Scripture Reference: Genesis 1:27 tells us that we are made in the image of God. This intrinsic worth sets us apart and affirms our dignity and value as individuals.
2. Unique Purpose
- Insight: Each person is uniquely designed with gifts, talents, and a specific purpose. Ephesians 2:10 reminds us that we are “God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.” Embracing your individuality helps you recognize your worth.
3. Unconditional Love
- Scripture Reference: Romans 5:8 illustrates God’s love for us: “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” This love is unconditional and reinforces our value, regardless of our flaws or failures.
4. Redeemed and Valued
- Insight: Through Christ’s sacrifice, we are redeemed. 1 Peter 1:18-19 emphasizes that we were not redeemed with perishable things, but with the precious blood of Christ, underscoring our immense value to God.
5. Call to Love and Serve
- Insight: Understanding our value leads us to love and serve others. When we recognize our worth, we can better extend that love and value to those around us, reflecting God’s character.
Practical Steps to Discover Your Value
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Reflect on Scripture: Spend time in the Bible, focusing on verses that speak to your worth and identity in Christ. Consider keeping a journal of insights.
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Prayer for Insight: Ask God to reveal your unique gifts and purpose. Listening in prayer can provide clarity and affirmation.
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Identify Your Strengths: Take stock of your talents and passions. What do you enjoy doing? What activities make you feel alive? These can offer clues to your purpose.
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Engage in Community: Surround yourself with people who uplift and affirm you. Community can provide support and encouragement as you discover your value.
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Serve Others: Engage in acts of service. Helping others can enhance your sense of worth and purpose, aligning with your God-given identity.
Discovering your God-given value is a transformative journey that impacts every aspect of your life. Embrace your identity as a beloved child of God, and let that understanding shape how you see yourself and interact with the world.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Is it an image distorted by criticism, rejection, disapproval, and pain? Or do you see yourself as God sees you?
Do you look to yourself or others in order to grasp your value? If you look anywhere other than to God—the God who created you with a purpose and a plan—your view of your own value is in grave danger of being distorted. Before you were ever born, God established your real worth by creating you! Even you were worth God’s creating you and more so: God chose you!
Where Do You Find Your Worth?
There are many reasons why people fail to see themselves as having value or having worth to God, to themselves, or to others. Generally, negative perceptions develop in people as a result of being treated in ways that cause them to feel devalued by the significant people in their lives. Unless these perceptions are changed, we can feel increasingly devalued.
Negative perceptions that begin in childhood are difficult to replace with positive perceptions in adulthood. The best time to examine and evaluate our own worth is before self-perceptions become strong and solidified.
In many cases, the more we’re rejected, the more we rejected ourselves, and the more we reject those around us. Our greatest need is to have someone accept us and value us as an individual, special person. Someone who can heal our emotional wounds and cause us to see our God-given significance. This Someone is the true Healer of the brokenhearted. This Someone is the Lord Himself.
Determining Self-Worth
- Worth signifies the value, merit, or significance of a person or thing.
- Self-worth is the belief that your life has value and significance.
- Worth is a translation of the Greek word axios, which means “of weight and worth.” In biblical times, gold and other precious metals were placed on a balancing scale where their worth was determined by their weight, leading to the expression …
“… worth their weight in gold.…”
(Lamentations 4:2)
Question: “How can someone’s worth be determined?”
Answer: At an auction, the worth of an item is determined clearly and simply by one thing … the highest price paid. Each item goes to the highest bidder. You were bought from the auction block of sin over 2,000 years ago when the heavenly Father paid the highest price possible—the life of His Son, Jesus Christ. By that one act, your worth was forever established by God.
Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for you—willingly dying on the cross—paying the penalty for your sins. He loves you that much!
Your true worth is not based on anything you have done or will do, but on what Jesus has already done. Without a doubt, He established your worth.… You were worth His life.… You were worth dying for.
“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins”
(1 John 4:9–10).
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