You Are Enough!

“Am I strong? Beautiful? Am I good enough? Do I belong, after all that I've said and done? Is it real when I feel I don't measure up? Am I loved?”

If we’re honest, we have all had those thoughts run through our minds. We feel like we are inadequate, like God could never use us. We tend to think we’ve strayed too far for God to ever love us. I know I’ve had these thoughts plenty of times. I compare myself to everyone else, thinking I’m not as pretty as that girl, or I’m not as smart as that girl. I’ve fallen away from my walk with God many times, and walked in the ways of this world. It was then that I never thought I would measure up and that I wasn’t loved. I placed my value and worth in the opinion of a guy. I let them tell me who I was and who I wasn’t.

As I’m learning and growing in my faith and as a person, I’m starting to see that that’s not where my identity come from. My identity comes from Christ. He formed me in my mother’s womb, and has great plans for me. He created me to be a daughter of the King. I am always enough to Him. I can never do too much to stray away from Him. I am unique and beautiful to Him. He hasn’t called me to ministry because He thought I was qualified, but He is using the things that I think would “disqualify” me to use in the ministry that He has called me to.

So, if you’re reading this and have ever felt this way, this is for you:

You are loved. You are enough. You are worth it. You are beautiful. You are a Child of the King. Your identity is not in the things of this world, in what you have or haven’t done, but it is in Christ alone. Regardless of where you’ve been or where you’re going, you’ve never been outside of God’s love for you. You don’t have to compare yourself to anyone. God’s love for you is unconditional – it doesn’t depend on your decisions, on what you wear, or what grades you have. God knows every part of you, and loves you relentlessly anyways. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. God knows the plans He has for you – plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.

Walk in these promises daily, and remember that no matter where you are, you are enough and you are loved by God.

“I am strong. Beautiful. I am good enough. I belong after all, ‘cause of what You've done. This is real, what I feel. No one made it up. I am loved.”