Your True Value

By Julie Rahm

What makes you valuable? Perhaps you think it’s what you do, how you look, or what you have. If so, consider this perspective. What makes a home designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright worth more than another home of the same size and similar location? Of course, it is because the unique design of the home was created by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. By the same token, the architect behind your design is what gives you value.

You are valuable, because Almighty God, the architect of the universe, is your architect! He designed your looks, your height, your personality – every detail of you – uniquely and perfectly, exactly the way you need to be to accomplish your mission in life. He placed inside of you unique gifts, talents, passions, and dreams. There are no accidents! God made you at this time in the history of planet earth for a reason. The world needs what you have to offer through your distinctive talents.

So often I hear people say things like “if only I had her personality, then I would be successful”. “If only I were taller...” “If only I were prettier...” “If only I were stronger...” You are exactly the way you need to be!

The key to living your best life is to know the truth about your value. When you know the truth, you can be self-validating and self-approving. When you look for approval from others, you sacrifice a piece of yourself by doing what makes them happy, instead of what is in your heart. If you live for the approval of others long enough, you will forget who you really are! Rather than trying to be someone else, be the best at being you. Learn to accept yourself as you really are.

Start today approving of yourself. Instead of focusing on the one thing you did not do perfectly, focus on the 1,000 things you did well today! Give everything you do your best effort. Give yourself credit for all the things you did well, and tell yourself you will do better on the other things next time.

Perhaps other people have put you down, focusing on the one thing you did that was not perfect. Perhaps they have said you do not have what it takes to accomplish your dreams. They are wrong. You have everything it takes to fulfill your God-inspired dreams. Your true value comes from the architect behind your unique design, God Himself. It’s not what you do, it’s not what you have, and it’s not how you look that makes you valuable. The world needs you and the gifts and talents only you have to offer! You are exactly the way you need to be. Believe it and start approving of yourself today!