If I Compare, I Lose
We make ourselves miserable when we buy into the idea that what is being graded or tested is equivalent to human worth. It’s a lie.
My worth is assigned and irrevocable. I am who God says I am. I am his child.
If this isn’t the most important fact about me then my priorities are screwed up.
I have had many roles and worn many labels. Some have given me power and authority for a season - like the title Dad, for instance. To the extent that I could remember that I myself am always, first and foremost, a child and under God, my ability to discipline as a loving father was a blessing to my children. When I forgot this then they suffered under my hand.
Being a child of God doesn’t make me soft. In fact my Heavenly Father is continuing to raise me, which involves discipline. This is a hard pill to swallow I know, the fact that being the child of the king doesn’t protect me, but it is to grow me up and enable me to do the tasks he calls me to do with him.
This truth that- I am a child of God- is one I've held onto in today's chaotic world. It helps me to remember I am created in His image. And for this for reason, it is even more important to reach out to others with love and respect.