“It is a false depiction to assess our worth in response to how much others want us or don’t want us.”

I know for me there have been times where this quote has proved true. Times where I have had to be reminded that I am so much more than how others see me. Times where I placed how I see myself and my worth on how another person treated me. If they treated me well, they must like me. If they disregarded me or didn’t invite to someplace with them, they must hate me. Sometimes it’s all in my head, and other times maybe I read a little too much into things. Sometimes I continue to let other’s responses to me dictate how I assess my own worth.

There have probably been days where you have felt this too. But your worth is not based on how others see you or how others show that they want you or don’t want you.

Let me say this again for the people in the back: your worth is not based on how others see you or how others show that they want you or don’t want you.

Your value and worth is based on how you see yourself. You are a unique individual who has the potential to do anything you put your mind to. You have the ideas and creativity to make something new. You are independent and shine brighter than you think in this world. You have the power to be a world changer. It’s all right there inside you if you stop worrying about what others may think or if they want you near them.

Those that treat you badly, those who are the negative influences and the bullies that place borders around you to keep you in their box and build walls around you: you don’t need them. Let them go! Break free from the stereotypes and preconceived notions of your character and be you!

Your value and worth is also based in the One who created you. The One who created you in his image (Genesis 1:27). The One who knows the numbers of hair on your head and counts you of more worth than sparrows (Matthew 10:29-31). The One who knew you before you were born and has a plan for your life (Jeremiah 29:11). The One who created you to be “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalms 139:14). The One who loved you so much and thought so much of you that he gave his Son as a sacrifice for our sins so that we wouldn’t have to die (John 3:16). The One that, through sacrifice, has brought you into his family (Ephesians 1:5-6).

You have more worth than you know. You have more value than you know. You are loved more than you know.