Looking for my value, my self-worth, and my identity with position and success, I would always choose a safe retreat into my hiding place of counterfeit affirmation — selling my soul to my work. Receiving the glory of man through the recognition of another successful project; earning more money; advancing to that next, higher title on the corporate ladder, I continued to retreat from the pain and insecurities of my fractured life, protecting my empire as I chased my American dream with a blind devotion. The dream of this empire was something I wanted so badly that I failed to listen to that little voice inside trying to warn me that I was walking down a bad path. I would continue to perform on the world stage desperately trying to gain my identity. Ignoring the inner sadness slowly tightening around me, I didn’t realize that underneath this drive was a deep desire to just be accepted. I became a slave to my own empire, running without a purpose, and I didn’t even know it.

Our worth and our value are not based on how much we have in the bank, our title, what we do, what we have, what path we choose or even what we believe. Our worth is connected to the fact that we are image bearers of the living God! You have to get this…our worth is immeasurable! Did you catch that?

Lets rewind the tapes a bit to say…back in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve messed up big time; the human race fell into captivity and the ransom to get us out was “off the charts”. The only one who could pay such the outrageously high ransom was God Himself. He pursued us and He paid the ultimate price on the cross to ransom us back out of captivity. Please receive this…please soak this in…YOU have immeasurable worth and don’t let any other voice tell you differently!!!

So, where do you find your self-worth? …your identity?