Who Says I'm Defective?
Tuesday January 27, 2015
God created each of us with beauty and dignity. This knowledge should fill us with great joy and a real sense of personal worth. From the very beginning, however, the devil tempted Adam and Eve and implied that humans were not “very good” because they lacked the knowledge of good and evil which God was withholding from them. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s instructions and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was not Godly wisdom that they received but a distorted perspective of life based on self-rejection, guilt, fear and separation from God.
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” (Gen. 3:8-10 NIV)
The devil continues to whisper these lies to us these days. Because we don’t feel good about ourselves, our circumstances, or our future, he tells us we’re defective and we need something to make us fit in, be accepted, and feel better. The temptation is often towards an addictive substance or a relationship that’s unhealthy. When life unravels around our broken life habits, the devil then underlines how flawed we are and how hopeless it is to do better. Our self-esteem bottoms out as we so easily recognize mistakes and pain and shattered dreams.
Our loving Heavenly Father, still wants us to experience the loving relationship with Him that we were always intended to experience. The Bible tells us that God loved us so much that He sent Jesus to pay the price of our sin and brokenness, which is death. Jesus overcame death on our behalf and is able to give us life forever in the Kingdom of God. We are cherished children of a loving God and our self-worth is not based on what we may feel or what others say about us, but on what God says. We need to listen to God, see what He’s done, and believe what He says rather than pay attention to the deceiver who is only trying to steal, kill and destroy the new life we have been given. ..to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God. The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. (John 1:12-13, 10:10 NLT)
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