Because you’re worth it!

The tagline to the L’Oreal beauty products range is ‘because you’re worth it.’

With this motto they are saying to the viewers that they can afford to buy their products because they (the viewer) are worth it.  They deserve to pamper and look after themselves.

It’s all part of a culture we now have of building up people’s self worth, which on a certain level is good, but it got me thinking.

What is the measure by which we estimate our value.  Where do we get our sense of worth?

Is it from our peers? Parents? Teachers? Celebrities?

Who has the say to how much we are worth and the value that is placed upon our lives?

I think that until and unless we get our value from the right source we are going to struggle with issues of self-worth and we are going to be constantly trying to win the approval of those around us.  Our lives will be influenced and impacted by this.

“Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.“Psalm 146:3 & 4

I recommend that we look to God to get our sense of worth.
How much value does He place on our life? What does He see as our worth?

“God paid a high price for you, so don’t be enslaved by the world.” 1 Corinthians 7:23.

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

There is also a story Jesus tells about a man who finds some treasure in a field and sells everything he has to be able to buy the field with the treasure in it. He values it so much that he gives up everything for it. Jesus says that the Kingdom of God is like this.

God definitely thinks you are worth it.

He has paid a high price for you, you are worth so much to Him.

Knowing that He, the Creator of everything loves you and values you will transform and revolutionise everything.

Knowing that not only is your life precious to Him, but indeed ALL life transforms everything.

The person who has just insulted you is of worth to God, just as the taxi driver who almost crashed into you with his reckless driving. People you don’t like and people you don’t understand, they all have value in God’s eyes and we cannot devalue them without devaluing ourselves.

Equally we cannot elevate the value of others above others and discriminate, a
s the apostle Paul says “All of you who have been baptized to show you belong to Christ have become like Christ. God does not see you as a Jew or as a Greek. He does not see you as a servant or as a person free to work. He does not see you as a man or as a woman. You are all one in Christ.” Galatians 3:27-28.

Let’s live lives shaped and impacted by what God thinks about us and not what others say.

Because He thinks you’re worth it.