Set in Stone

Our worth is the result of God’s love for us, not the other way around. Our worthiness is not what gives God reason to love us in the first place.

Instead, we have worth because God loves us. It is his love for us that both assigns and demonstrates our value.

There’s no quality of ours that can make us deserving of this love. We simply are loved – in this moment, and forever.

If there was something we could do to make ourselves lovable, then our worthiness would be in a constant state of flux. Our value would rise and fall based on our accomplishments, our relationships, our ability to measure up to others. There is no stability in that kind of self-worth.

But our value is not dependent on anything except the fact that we are loved by the one who formed us and knows us better than any other could.

Even when we fail to perform to our best ability, or when we feel lonely and disconnected from others, or when we’re trapped in a game of comparison, our worth does not change. These things have nothing to do with who we are as beloved children of God.

So if any of you are struggling with feeling worthy of God’s love (as I often do), know that your value is already set in stone. Your Creator has loved you since the beginning, and that truth will never change.

Related Scripture

“‘For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,’ says the Lord who has compassion on you.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭54:10‬ ‭

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you.”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭

“By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭4:9-10‬ ‭

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5:8‬ ‭

“See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are…”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭3:1‬