I’ve not been a person who indulges in emotion or lets it overwhelm the majority of my life. I like to keep it in check and stay in control. After all, I was taught to suppress, suppress suppress, right? Recently I found myself standing in an audience pretty much with free-flowing tears running down my face. I couldn’t stop it.

The first time I had just known God would send a message it had been the be content message.  I’ve written about that experience. It had been a long time though since I felt that stirring or urging to listen. That what was going to be sang or said would be what I needed to hear. But as I stood in the audience that night, at a call to worship service, I felt the spirit urging me to listen close. That the next song was a message for me.

The song started and the most amazing love song from God to me poured out. “I am seen by you and seen by no one else. With a million chances, all my chances have run out, still you search for me when the search party has already gone home. You stay with me; oh, you make sure that I’m not left alone”. Wow! What a message and that was just verse one.

God sees me, he knows me, and yet he loves me. He seeks me out and stays with me. That thought amazes my heart. The worship leader sat at her piano and humbly/honestly declared the truth of God’s amazing love. It was a message just for me that night.  A message that went on to proclaim that “I can’t mess this love up even in the mess I’ve made. That he takes me regardless of all my mistakes.”  I don’t know if you’ve ever been there in the middle of a mess of your making. Looking at all the shattered broken pieces around you and realizing there’s no one to blame but you. Even there in that place, he accepts me and loves me. He thinks I’m worth it. That was the message of this song, that I’m worth it.

Maybe you’ve been there, maybe you felt that very raw feeling of being undeserving and of not being worthy. The thoughts plague you that somehow there’s something that you could do or something that could be done to you that would somehow make God turn away. I’m here to tell you today that he accepts this fully imperfect person regardless.  He accepts us as we are not as we wish we were.  He knows us and his love is being freely offered to us. It is His love that says we are worth it. 

It’s not our circumstances that make us worthy. It’s not our successes or victories that make us worthy. It’s nothing that we have ever done or will ever do that makes us worthy in God’s eyes to be loved, to be held, to be treasured, to be protected, and to be his. It’s his love for us alone that proves we’re worth it. 

Maybe I’m not the only one who needed the reminder, maybe I was not the only one there that night in tears because of the truth of God’s amazing love. So let me remind you today of the amazing truth of God’s love for you, perhaps you need to hear it as well. 

The love that just like the song says “I’m worth it, even when I am a wreck. I’m worth it, fully imperfect. I’m worth it when I’m on a mountain top. I’m worth it, I’m dancing till my feet won’t stop.  I’m worth it, from my beginning to my end.  Your love says I’m worth it.” It’s my hope for you today that you will hear these words and know that they are for you.  That you will find freedom for any shame you feel or from the many lies that tell you you’re undeserving. That you will find joy in knowing you are his beloved and you are one he values so much that he was willing to give everything for you. That you will find hope, that even as you continue to live and move, have success but make mistakes also, that it’s not what you do that makes you worth it, you were already worth it in his eyes, and you will always be. I pray you will know fully today that God’s love says You Are Worth It!