I know I said I would be answering questions but it turns out, You guys aren't asking many questions. So I am going to post something I have been recently thinking about due to a friend's Facebook post. Worth. A friend of mine posted a list of what he thought to be the 10 prettiest girls he was friends with on Facebook. Now, all of these girls were very beautiful; but it got me thinking, what makes a girl number 10 versus number 1? And what about the girls not on the list? Are those girls worth less? Should we all strive to be number 1? What determines what we are worth?
So ask yourself this question, "What am I worth?" This is a really hard question to answer, especially as a girl. If you aren't on some list, where do you belong. I spent most of my life wrestling with this question. I learned from a very young age as many of us wrongly do, that my worth came from what people thought of me. If I sang really loud during Sunday school, or if I studied hard to get good grades people would love me. And to the best of my knowledge, their love and praise was what I was worth. After all, the people on TV were only as good as people thought of them, so I thought the same was true with me. I tried my best to earn as much approval as possible, so I would be worth more to people.
As I got older, boys came into the equation. My worth stopped coming from what adults thought of me to what boys thought of me. Now, I have never been a particularly good looking person. I am very average. I've never been a model. So, knowing I would never be approved of by the typical group of guys in middle and high school; I would pick one to go after and do everything I could to be the perfect person for him. Sometimes that would be dressing "sexy", joining the clubs he was in, or doing anything I could that I thought he would like. As long as some guys were happy with me, I was worth something, Obviously not as much as those beautiful girls but still worth something.
My senior year of high school I got my first real boyfriend. He came up to me in class and asked me out on a date, just us. We had been friends before but for the first time, someone liked me. I started trying to do anything and everything to get him to like me even more and to keep him from leaving me for someone better. Someone who had made the list of prettiest girls. I thought I was only worth something if he loved me. Well this was not a good thought to have. There were some days where we were happy and together but some days we didn't get along. So my self worth went up and down like a roller coaster ride.
It wasn't until I got into some really bad life situations that I realized I had no self worth. I wasn't worth anything. I had pushed everyone away. But it was at this time that God was able to show up. God showed up and started to tell me what He thought about me. He told me that He made me beautiful. He told me that He had a plan for me. He told me that He loved me NO MATTER WHAT. And slowly I began to realize that my worth is the worth that my creator gave to me.
Think about it like this.
A twenty dollar bill. Who determines what that piece of paper is worth? Someone who didn't know what it was might think it was only as good as toilet paper. Someone with millions of dollars might think that it is worth nothing. Someone in a poor country might think it is worth a new house. But what really determines the worth of that dollar is the amount that the dollar's creator put on it. The same goes for you and me. Our worth comes from the mark our creator put on us. So what does God think of us. Check this out: (from restoredbyloveministries.org)
GOD ADORES YOU!You might not think you are anything special but you are more special than you can even imagine to God. God sent his Son, Jesus to die for each and every one of us (Romans 5:8). He died and rose again so that we could be free and forgiven (1 Peter 3:18) from the mistakes we make. It is so hard at times as a teen and even for some adults to acknowledge that God's love is so much greater than any love any human being(including a guy you might be dating!) can give us. Sometimes we get so tied down by what people think and we let it eat away at our hearts. But what God thinks is what matters and He thinks YOU ARE SPECIAL! He loves you with an everlasting love and it's through the understanding and acceptance of His love for us that we find freedom. Let me let you in on a secret....Even when you feel you can't go to anyone on this earth, Jesus wants to be your bestfriend, and he qualifies for the greatest bestfriend you could EVER have. He wants to sit with you when you are hurting. (Psalm 34:18) He wants you to tell him everything you are feeling. (Psalm 10:17-18) He knows it all already so you might as well tell him about it, right??? He will not turn away from you and leave you abandoned. He wants a personal relationship with you because you are His most prized possession!(1 John 4:9-10)
You are beautiful and you are worth SO MUCH!!!!
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