Friend, You are Good Enough!

I think yesterday’s post struck a chord with many.

Expanding on the truths that you and I matter because of Whom we belong to, and our title isn’t who we are, I want to remind you today…

You are good enough.

The world will tell you otherwise. Believe me… I’ve been told a few doozies in my day. We have an enemy who wants to discourage and deflate us to the point we will give up on everything. He’ll use anything he can to do so.

He and the world will tell you:

“No matter how hard you try, you will never be good enough.”
“If you don’t have ___ amount of money, you aren’t good enough.”
“If you aren’t the right dress or pants size, you aren’t good enough.”
“If you have a particular bad habit, you aren’t good enough.”
“If you don’t parent a certain way, you aren’t good enough.”
“If your kids make a mistake, you aren’t good enough. (And neither are they.)”
“If your husband doesn’t hold a certain job, if your house isn’t a certain size, if you don’t drive a certain car, you aren’t good enough.”
“If you don’t work outside the home, or if you do, you aren’t good enough.”
“If you don’t have a certain education or a certain experience, you aren’t good enough.”
“And if you don’t have kids, or have too many, or are married or aren’t, you aren’t good enough.”

It’s a little ridiculous, isn’t it??!! I’m exasperated just writing this list.

Friend, these are all flat-out lies.

You and I will never measure up to the world’s standards. And you know? We don’t need to try.

You are good enough because God made you good enough.

God created you to be you, and me to be me. Beautiful, but not perfect. Cherished, but not to be put on a pedestal. Loved, but not beyond discipline.

There’s nothing you and I have to do to be good enough.

Psalm 139:13-16 from The Message encourages me so:

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother’s womb.
I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared before I’d even lived one day.

God has formed us from nothing into something! You and I are marvelously made! He left no detail undone.

You and I are certainly good enough.

I pray today God helps us to stop the striving to be good enough, and to simply rest in the truth that we are.

May He especially bless you in this truth today!

Julie

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