Revolution of Self-Worth

You are never alone.  I don’t mean that in some creepy, God is watching you take showers kind of way.  I mean don’t forget.  Some live like God doesn’t exist, doesn’t matter, and doesn’t care while some live like God simply left their side.  God hasn’t left your side.  As a matter of fact, He’s in the thick of it.  He’s in the trenches of your pain waiting to rescue you but you keep turning to anything and everything else.  What’s fascinating and overwhelmingly sad about that is you were designed to walk in amazing love, life and opportunity but instead you chose to keep listening to lies over and over again believing that those things can be found somewhere else.  You have lost hope.

Remember how in the earlier blog I said hope is equivalent to confidence?  Well, when you don’t have confidence what do you do?  Some drink.  That’s how they gain confidence to pick up women.  Some become attention grabbers because that brief attention makes them feel loved, even if it is fleeting and quickly lost.  When you don’t have confidence your whole self-worth becomes lost also.  When you feel like there’s no one you can lean on, or nothing you can trust in then you feel like it must be you that is the failure.  That you are to blame, and that you are ultimately worthless.  So, what do you do when you feel worthless?  You attempt to ease that pain, with whatever vices you can.  Maybe you work longer hours; maybe you even start to serve at church more.  Whatever you can do to feel valuable.  The one similarity in all of this is that your confidence comes from outside yourself.  There is no such thing as self-confidence.  It is a lie.  Think about it.  When was the last time you put 100% of your trust, hope, or confidence in yourself??  

Hope

Comes

From

Outside

Yourself

So, for arguments sake let’s put all this together.  If your hope is confidence which comes from outside yourself and brings you value, isn’t it fair to say that it is vitally important where you place that hope?  One could say it’s soul-changing, revolutionarily important.  One might also say it’s probably pretty important to put that hope in the best available place.  It’s important we figure this out for the sake of our souls.  I’m not saying I’m 100% right, but I’m 100% confident that Jesus gives me the best hope I’ve ever experienced.  But, hey, I’m just another dude.  You place your hope where you will, and may it truly bring you the confidence and self-worth your soul longs for.