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What Are You Worth?

There are folks that determine their self-worth from external factors.

Because they like their appearance, they have great self-worth.
Because they have a financially high net worth, they have great self-worth.
Because they know important people, they have great self-worth.
Because of their job, they have great self-worth.
Because of their achievements, they have great self-worth.
Because of their abilities, they have great self-worth.
Because of their self-aggrandizement, they have great self-worth.
Because of others compliments, they have great self-worth.

The difficulty is that these factors can and will change and when they do our self-worth will change with them. May I suggest you look in a different area to have true lasting self-worth. Jesus said "Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" and this answered his own question "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

May I tell you that God ascribes worth to each one of us individually. Because of this incredible truth that God places worth on us, we should draw self-worth or learn to draw self-worth from God’s viewpoint.


What are some of the ways God assigns worth to us?
1.    By making us in His image
2.    ‎By planning for our redemption before creating us.
3.    ‎By going through with His redemptive plan.
4.    ‎By an unconditional love that cannot be stopped or deterred.
5.    ‎By amazing, every present grace He gives to us moment by moment
6.    By giving us hope in a dark and hopeless world
7.    By His mercy that is new and fresh every morning.
8.    By teaching us who we are in Christ.

There are plenty of people who also want to destroy your self-worth. They do so in order to manipulate you. Their manipulation is so good that you actually believe you are the problem. But they persist to drive you down and keep you down because of their own narcissistic, twisted personality. Also, you should know that the longer they manipulated you, the deeper that is burned into your psyche, the greater the guilt you will carry and it will take longer to overcome and change your thinking process.

What destroys our self-worth?

1.    Being Manipulated by someone
2.    The disapproval of other people
3.    Sanctifying ourselves
4.    Guilt over our past mistakes
5.    Shame that accompanies guilt
6.    Comparing ourselves with others
7.    Being rejected and the fear of rejection
8.    Taking responsibility for someone else’s wrongdoing

We need to draw our self-worth from the Creator of our souls, from the Giver of life, from the Author of eternal life, from the graciousness that is afforded to us by God Almighty, from His immeasurable love that is unconditionally given to us, from the hope that He gives us and from the mercy that meets you and I every day.


May we consider, contemplate, reflect and muse on God’s dealing with us and see the worth He ascribes to each of us individually.
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