The tension between wanting to be enough, and knowing I already am

Tell me that title didn’t just catch you…so let’s jump in.

Did you know over 70% of women struggle with self image and/or self worth? Did you know that most of those women seem to “have it altogether” on the outside so you’d never know? We live in culture that is constantly on to the next best thing, the newest trend. We live in a time now where people are even more comfortable on social media saying things about your character, or your image, knowing good and well they would never say it to your person.

Most of the time we don’t realize just how much of our feeling of self worth is totally reliant on what others think about us. I am so guilty of this myself, so I often need to remind myself of who the Creator of the Universe says I am.

He says I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am chosen, even before the world became, and I am His beloved, and I am HIS.

Psalm 139:13-14 “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Isaiah 43:1 “But now thus says the Lord,
he who created you, O Jacob,
    he who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
    I have called you by name, you are mine.

Romans 9:25 “ As indeed he says in Hosea,

“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
    and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”

When I’m drowning in the self pity of not feeling good enough; a good enough mom, good enough wife, pretty enough, funny enough, nice enough, perky enough, quiet enough, all of the ENOUGHS, I can’t help but sit back and think, that the same God who created the most intricate beings, the most beautiful mountain tops, breath taking waterfalls, every species of flower and animal, thought this world needed a me. Just as He designed me. What a God.