We all know today that the world and media want to tell us our value, our worth, and our identity.
Let’s go back to the first pages of the Bible where God Himself speaks of human origin.
(Genesis 1 NLT)
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. And that is what happened. Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
As a human being, this passage talks about your life. God looks at you and says, “Very good!” That is the truth about your personal value, your very worth, the essence of who you are in your identity.
This is what the first verse says about you - Personalize the verse, insert your own name.
Then God said, “Let us make _______________ in our image, to be like us.
Let that sink in. When ever you question your worth, your identity, remember you are created in God’s image, His nature, as another translation says. And He looks at you, just the way you are, and says ‘Very Good”
How would believing that about yourself change the way you approach your day, the way you approach others, The way you carry yourself?
Let’s pray: “Father, thank You for my life. Thank you for reminding me the way you see me, in your likeness. Help me to accept and embrace what you say about me and the way you see me as ‘Very good”. As above, so below."