We sometimes depend on others to fill a void that can only be filled by our Creator.
Our value is not dependent on our ability to earn acceptance from people, education, possessions or power, but rather, its true source is the love and acceptance of God. He created us. He alone knows how to fulfill all of our needs.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s masterpiece.
He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
Psalm 139:14
I PRAISE YOU because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
As we trust Christ for this truth about ourselves and believe in Him for our self worth and salvation, we can also trust that He can forgive any sin from our past, present or future. And Christ does not accuse us, Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Revelation 12:10 says Satan goes before God day and night accusing us. But if we are trusting Christ’s blood to cover our sins, God does not condemn us and we can be free from guilt.
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
COLOSSIANS 1:22
THROUGH CHRIST YOU ARE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD HOLY & BLAMELESS WITHOUT A SINGLE FAULT
Once we can come to terms with that truth, we need to begin to realize who we really are as God’s people. We are not poor or rich or homeless or living in luxury. Our value is not dependent on any of these things, we are defined by Christ and what He says about us. We can begin to act like sons and daughters of a king because He is a King who is coming back for his children, a people who know whose they are.
GALATIANS 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
EPHESIANS 2:19-20
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God's people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
1 Peter 2:9
For you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
As we believe this, we can continue building on more truths that God formed us in our mothers womb and has a specific purpose that only we can fulfill.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,”says the LORD. “They are plans for good & not for disaster, to give you a future & a hope.
Psalm 139:13-16
You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside
and my intricate outside,
and wove them all together in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex!
Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking.
It simply amazes me to think about it!
How thoroughly you know me, Lord!
You even formed every bone in my body
when you created me in the secret place,
carefully, skillfully shaping me from nothing to something.
You saw who you created me to be before I became me!
Before I’d ever seen the light of day,
the number of days you planned for me
were already recorded in your book.
Every single moment you are thinking of me!
How precious and wonderful to consider
that you cherish me constantly in your every thought!
O God, your desires toward me are more
than the grains of sand on every shore!
When I awake each morning, you’re still with me.
God Is the Potter
You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand.
Isaiah 64:8
The principle that suffering leads to glory is illustrated in Scripture by a vivid description of clay on the Potter’s wheel – clay that was once cracked, shattered, and broken, clay that was totally useless and ugly. The Potter took the clay and broke it down even further, grinding it into dust then moistening it with water before He put it on His wheel and began to remake it into a vessel pleasing to Himself. The cracks and chips and broken pieces disappeared as the clay became soft and pliable to the Potter’s touch.
But the clay was still soft and weak, the color dull and drab. So the Potter placed the vessel into the fiery kiln, carefully keeping His eye on it as He submitted it to the raging heat. At a time He alone determined was sufficient, the Potter withdrew the pot from the furnace. The blazing heat had radically transformed into a vessel of strength and glorious, multicolored beauty.
You may feel as if you're losing the battle, but don't give up! Hold tightly to My hand, and just keep standing. This is victory. JESUS CALLING
