AM I GOOD ENOUGH?

The enemy is the Father of Lies and one of his main assaults is on our value. He loves to have us twist our value and identity together, weave them as one, and delude us into believing lies of who we are not.

However, your value is unchanging. It was the price Love was willing to pay for you and it was joy for Him to do so.

"For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son" (John 3:16a).

"For the joy set before him he endured the cross..." (Hebrews 12:2b).

He already paid for you. You can't increase or decrease your value based upon what you do or don't do. In other words, your actions (or works) have no effect on your value because it was ascribed to you from the Father from the beginning, and set before the foundations of the world. It was this value that was so precious to Jesus that he died for you, He's already paid the price. He said you were worth it. He chose you. He calls you friend.

"He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him" (Ephesians 1:4, NASB95).

"You were bought with a price [purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made His own]" (1 Corinthians 6:20a, AMP).

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friend" (John 15:13).

If you don't have your value settled in your heart before seeking your identity you may try and get your value from your identity. 'Am I good enough?' thoughts may swirl you into doing rather than being. Therefore, you can't walk out your true identity if you are simultaneously trying to gain value from it.

Conversely, your identity as a believer in Jesus Christ starts with your last name in Heaven. It is a last name that is shared by all whom have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. It's thread is common and it's attributes apply to all who are in Christ, and p.s. it comes with an inheritance!

"He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:5, NASB95).

"And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]" (Romans 8:17a, AMP).

Your identity is the place in the Father's house, you're belonging! Here’s the thing though, we have a first name too, and first names identify an individual. Each of us, individually have been created on purpose, with purpose.

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” (Jeremiah 1:5a).

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13-14a).

“My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:15-16).

Do you hear the intimacy here, the nearness, the depth, (the love)? He thought about you long before He formed you. He designed you expressly and distinctively, and He didn't just think about the vessel when He formed it. He thought about purpose.

Our identity (our true identity in Christ) is what Jesus says about us, how He made us! It's not our value, or what the world tells us we should be. It's not what the enemy has told us, nor what trauma has taught us.

If we let anyone or anything define our identity outside of Christ we are lost. This is why the enemy would have us blur the concepts of value and identity together, searching out one in the other, to keep us distracted and from fulfilling our purposes. He knows (and fears) what some of you are just beginning to understand...that your identity in Christ is powerful!

"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear) but [He has given us a spirit] of power, and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control" (2 Timothy 1:7, AMP).

Therefore, having our true value established in our hearts, and knowing who He says you are is essential to walking out true freedom.

"Therefore if the son makes you free, you shall be free indeed" (John 8:36, NKJV).

*All quotes are taken from NIV unless otherwise noted.

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