Answer this question:
How do you know that you are valuable? The world tells you that the valuable person is someone who is beautiful, intelligent, creative, charming. Someone others admire. Someone who is strong; who pursues what they want until they get it.
But what if you are not strong? What if creativity and genious and beauty are the things that you lack? What if you have tried your best... but you have failed?
What if you can't stop failing?
Where does your value really come from? There is an answer to this question.
...and it may not be the answer you expect.
Here's another question...
What do you think is God's opinion of you?
If you ask the average person this question, they are surprised. Here is a normal answer: "Well, I'd guess that He's not very happy with me right now. He's probably disappointed in me. I haven't been making good choices lately."
If this is close to how you would answer this question, please read on to page three.
The most beautiful, creative, strong and exciting Being in existence already knows your name.
He has been calling it, because He wants you to know Him personally. He wants to heal you on the inside and give your life purpose and joy. He is patient with you but impatient for you because He loves you so deeply.
You are important to Him.
The Cross demonstrated the value He gave you- it's not just a religious story or a stained-glass window. God is initiating intimacy to your heart of hearts, where no one else knows who you really are. But He knows... He understands the hurting and the regrets; He is aware of the hardness that you use like a shield to protect your vulnerable heart.
He knows all the masks you use and He knows that they are not the real you.
And God sees the things that make you most ashamed, the things that you would die if anyone knew about. And the incredible thing is this: He does not turn His gaze away and reject you. Instead, HE found a way to cleanse you without you doing the cleansing. Jesus died for YOU on the cross that day. He wants you to experience His love, not just acknowledge it. He thought about you on the cross and He wants you to know that you can be clean now. There is no reason not to take His hand and accept His gift of salvation.
It’s free.
If you just prayed that prayer and meant it in your heart, then you have permanently been adopted into God's family as His son or daughter. Jesus promises that He will never stop loving you and never, never leave you, no matter what. (Hebrews 13:5). He loves you so much. You are His treasure. He has washed you clean and you are clean forever now. All of your sins have been taken from you and punished at the cross. God will never punish you again. You have begun a relationship with Him that is based on love and not law. If you sin, He will gently chasten you, as a father chastens his child; to restore the fellowship that was broken.
The Bible says that sixty-eight things happen to a person when they accept Jesus' salvation. Here are a few:
- You are made righteous. (insert verse ref.)
- You are accepted. (insert verse ref.)
- You are a citizen of heaven.
- You are holy.
- You are being made perfect by His hand.
- You are victorious.
- You are loved beyond measure.
Now that you are His child, it’s important to get to know Him by reading your Bible, praying to Him, and attending a good Bible-believing church. Jesus told us to do these things so we can grow in our relationship with Him. The more we understand our value in our new identity as His children, the more we will experience all that He desires for us: peace, contentment, joy.
Your future is very bright.
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