Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:10
Father God I have so often tried to impress folks, standout, be viewed as important. These petty insecurities of mine often cause me to walk in a room of people and want to prove to them that I belong in the room, all the while hiding this deep feeling that I don’t measure up. Frankly, Lord I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb, that when folks see me their eyes are upon me and they are whispering behind my back.
I recognize these feelings are the rotten fruit of my sin nature, its repugnant stain affecting all of my senses, causing me to carry around this diminished sense of worth. Yet, when I look at this verse, I am reminded that all of this was true at one time. But now, I am loved with an everlasting love. You saw me in eternity past and loved me so much that You made plans to redeem me by sending Your Son, Whom You love with an everlasting love. I was an outcast and You adopted me. I was condemned and You poured out Your mercy on me. There is nothing I can do today to cause You to love me more than You do right now. Nor is there anything that I can do that can cause You to love me any less. I am truly loved!
As I walk in this truth today, help me to remember not only who I am but Whose I am. Help me to give my best without comparing myself or my results against others. Help me to pour out myself not doing so to win approval but out of selfless love reflecting Your love in a tangible way. Help me to show up not for the purpose of bringing attention to myself but instead in humility, knowing that I just want to be used by You. Father, I am complete in Christ. Help me to walk in that knowledge to Your glory. Amen.