Valuable.

It is a process, this becoming. Becoming what. Becoming who. Becoming all I was intended to be. Becoming whole. Shedding layers of falsehood in order to become who Jesus has called me to be.

I need to just be myself as I was always intended to be. No worldly bells and whistles. Just me and Jesus.

You see, I don’t need bells and whistles. Oh, I try them on from time to time, sometimes daily, trying to convince myself that they will make me more, make me better. But they are cumbersome. They are loud. And they distract from who I am in Jesus.

The world says that I, on my own, am not enough.

I've been thinking so often lately about who I am. Struggling with what is spoken over me and what I know to be true. It's about my value and where that value comes from.

It is not rooted in my bank account.

It is not found in what my friends think of me.

It is not because I'm single.

It is not based on my blog followers, facebook wall posts, or daily text message count.

It is so simple.

My value comes from and is rooted in LOVE. The love of a Father who, because of His great love for me, chose to come down and live as one of us, chose to die for me, chose to defeat death for me.

You are valuable because God loves you. I am valuable because God loves me. We are valuable because we are loved so deeply by an infinite and eternal God who, for the joy and glory set before him, endured the cross, so that we might be reconciled to Him, so that we might fully live in the love of the Lord.

I am deeply resting in this knowledge today.

Praying you always know how loved you are,
Alyssa