The Value of You

Truth can strike you anywhere. It often comes when you aren't looking for it and when you find something powerful, share it! You never know who is struggling with the same need for that truth.

I was recently listening to an audiobook and the author read the statement, regarding the devil, "Frankly, he doesn't even want you to exist."

I know this, but when he said that, my world stood still. It was literally like a freeze-frame rotation show complete with whirring sound effects. I have been really struggling personally lately with how I am feeling and many other health issues that are controlling more aspects of my life than they should. I know the enemy is using these circumstances to keep me down but to hear the truth out loud that he doesn't want me to exist, not be dead, but not exist, really struck me.

I have been giving so much power to the lies he is telling me and the feelings he is using to keep me at bay and he doesn't even want me here, but God does!

If the enemy doesn’t even want me to exist, why do I keep listening to him and allowing him to dictate my effectiveness for God? I listen to his lies, give in to the feelings of self-doubt, pain, sadness, and pity he instills in me and completely ignore the hope and promise God has in store for me.

The enemy uses the real feelings I have to distract me from the way I was supposed to use feelings, to experience God’s creation. I cannot base my actions on fleeting feelings, especially selfish ones. I must focus on what I know to be true.

God loves me and wants me to live, succeed, and be a part of His purpose.

The enemy hates me and wants to see that I don’t exist.

If he must use feelings and my selfish pride to render me useless, he will do that, but he would rather I wasn’t even around.

Why would I give that the time of day? I know who I am. I know what I have been called to do. What I know and what I feel may not always align, but now I see that I am choosing not to follow my head or my emotions, but rather God or the enemy, my life or my demise.

I don't know who needs to read this today, but you have two choices, believe in the one who gives you life and believes in you and your life, or give in to the one who wants you to blink out of existence. You have value. It's up to you, but I know which one I am choosing.