SELF WORTH / YOU ARE MADE WORTHY IN JESUS CHRIST

PRELUDE /
validating our self-worth in
possessions,
achievements, abilities,
appearance, acceptance,
titles, social status,
finances and other superficial securities
will leave us with a shallow sense of greatness
or absolute unworthiness.

When we wrongfully place or equate our value to the perishable things of this world, we take God’s creation and measure it to man-made deficiencies.

As God’s treasured possession, let me remind you,

When you are found in Christ, you are irrevocably identified in Him and redeemed through His works on the cross. There is no drastic deed, expensive earning, or futile fortune that will compare to the priceless blood of Jesus Christ. It is by His redemptive works on the cross that you are made worthy.

BEGIN /
Stacked sheets of shallow speech
Stained with superficial securities

Empty claps across standing stadiums
Validating worth in people’s praises

Searching for saving in
all the wrong places

Lost in
Human faces
Blank pages
Corrupt stages
Societal phases
Cut-throat races
Yearly wages

Shifting like sand
Built up to bring down

Blinded in this battle
We wrestle with dirt
to define our worth

Earned or achieved
to some high measure
or flattering degree

Masked in all of
their glories
Reaching heights
to staggering stories

Measured in the
hands of men

Placed like a crown
worn for affirmation

How often we search
polluted places
to define our worth

When everything is stripped
and bare bones remain

When the things
we hide behind
eventually decay

No longer
equipped
to pay

What will
have worth
on that Day

When

The final trumpet sounds
And heaven is unbound

When

Christ, The Sacrifice, became the Slaughter
Is now redeeming sons and daughters

When

Everything rehearsed
Becomes reversed

When Hall of Fames are lit in flames
And The Book of Life holds your name

…

CONT’D

“For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.” 1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ …