Our worth

Our worth

The Basics

Our worth: Based on God’s love for us:

This is a hard one to write because, as much as it's true, when you are low, feeling alone, and worthless this is a very hard truth to grasp. The first thought often is, "If God loves me, why is He allowing/doing this to me? Why, if He is my Salvation, doesn't He save me out of this situation? Why does He choose to let me hurt?"
The answer, if not based on the Truth of the Bible comes back in a few different forms.

1. God must not be totally ‘for’ me
2. I must not be worth Him protecting me
3. He must not be able to protect me, thus not as powerful as I thought
4. He must not be as good as I thought
5. He’s not a personal God, thus my problems aren’t big enough for Him to notice.

All of those statements come back to challenge the deity or the attributes of God.

1. God is omniscient: He knows what is going on. He fully encompasses not only the universe, but the workings of each atom. You are not escaping his notice. Every movement, every thought, every decision is completely at his attention. When it comes to him noticing you, He has tunnel vision and ‘only’ sees you.
2. God is omnipresent: He is everywhere. At the very outer edges of the universe, to the depths of the ocean to the darkest hellhole in the earth. He says He will never leave you. He says there is no where you can escape His love. He Is With You.
3. God is omnipotent: There is nothing He can’t do. No rock he can’t move. No problem He can’t fix. No situation beyond His hand. Nothing has jurisdiction above Him. He is supreme and every atom pays homage to Him. No one, no demon, no principalities or dominions have any ability to accomplish anything without His permission.
4. God is Love: I chose this attribute because it balances out a lot of our ‘fears’ of God. It’s not that God has love, or can love us; He IS Love. Whatever we can grasp about human love, whatever our weak definitions of love are, He surpasses them all. Thus, there is nothing He can allow, or do that isn’t totally enveloped in Love.
5. God will be glorified: Everything that God allows is to bring His church to a closer imitation of His Son, and to glorify Himself. He will not sacrifice one for the other. Both will be accomplished. Because these two goals are the primary motivation for God through love, sometimes the situations He allows seem to hurt and be totally contrary to His nature to allow. But we can be assured by understanding all these attributes of God, that He will not waste someone on a situation, or a situation on a person. Every action, purpose and situation is orchestrated to work His plans.

These represent only a fraction of the attributes that are found through out the Bible describing God. But I will use these to explain my ideas. How does understanding these truths show me that I’m worth something or that God loves me? Sometimes even if someone shows you truth it still comes down to deciding to believe it. Sometimes seeing it logically and accepting it even if it doesn’t seem like it, is the way we have to walk through tough times. God is love with not one drop of darkness in Him. He can’t do evil, He can’t do things spitefully to hurt us, and He can’t just ‘teach us a lesson’. When the Bible says that God loves you, it’s with the purest type of Love there ever has been. As we’ve stated, He is intimately aware of every facet of your life, coupled that with pure love and the motivation to bring you closer to Him and bring Himself Glory, we can rest assured that even in the midst of the wildest storms, whether in real life, or in our minds, He is holding it all together.

ii. Our image is part of God’s character no matter who we are

iii. Our value is intrinsic

Love

i. Fall in love with God- the more He’s real in your heart, the more you’ll see your worth.

ii. Even if no one else agrees, or loves you.. love yourself.

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Comment from a friend about this section:
*julie* says:
this is the first point under the heading 'our worth'..
Lyd says:
I like how you flow everything together. You have a great writing style that's easy to understand
Lyd says:
for a book, though, something like this begs to be expanded
*julie* says:
haha.. i was thinking htat too.. that this might need to be the intro to a fuller chapter..
Lyd says:
yeah
Lyd says:
there's tons of stuff to cover in the whole God loving us for His glory
*julie* says:
which is scarey.. because i'm not sure I have the knowledge to expand it fully..
Lyd says:
um...philosophically you probaly don't need more
*julie* says:
sometimes what i 'know' is just by faith...and hard to put into words.
Lyd says:
Stories and examples would probably do it
*julie* says:
ah.. good point.
Lyd says:
I felt you said everything necessary there
Lyd says:
it was all tied together, simple, deep, and easy to understand
Lyd says:
it's just dead, though, you know
Lyd says:
I have no pictures or images in my head to anchor it to
*julie* says:
ah... interesting..