Worthy . . . we use this word often. We say this to ourselves and to people around us all the time, and yet we live the complete opposite with our actions.
This is for women in all walks of life: the 30-year-old woman who has given up on the thought of marriage, to the new mama who is fighting with depression, to the newly divorced woman who never, ever saw herself here, to the happily married woman with kids, to the woman running herself ragged, to the college student, to the woman who feels like she will never find her people, to the single mom wondering if someone will ever love her again, to the woman begging God to give her a baby, to the woman still trying to navigate what exactly it is you want out of life.
You. Are. Worthy. You are so incredibly loved. It’s easy to sit there while you’re looking in the mirror and say that to yourself, it’s another thing to truly, unintentionally live by those words.
As women, girls, friends, sisters, wives, employees, we face this message from social media that we aren’t enough, that we are behind, that we have to be doing this at this age, we have to be this skinny or this big to be loved, that we have to look and act a certain way to get this or that, that we have to live by this timeline, but in all reality, simply—just as you are—is enough, wherever you are is enough.
If I could go back to younger me, and I had the chance to change only one thing, it would be that I undeniably knew I was enough and worthy of every single tiny thing this world had to offer. Understanding that would’ve single-handedly changed the way I entered relationships, jobs, friends, and how I perceived the world as a whole.
You are worthy, you are enough, you are whole as you are. You don’t have to keep searching for it or chasing after it. You just have to grasp it and live it. As hard as it may be to do, you can walk away from that striving, that next best feeling, that need to do more, and rest in the knowledge that you are chosen. You do not have to earn it, because there is nothing to earn, you just simply have to own it. When you depend on people or things to build you up and make you feel worthy, they’ll have the same power to break you down over and over again. The good Lord has a plan for your life, and I promise you it is not a constant battle to earn your worth. You are already worthy because He says you are.
You see, Jesus doesn’t operate the way our brains do. You cannot add one more thing to yourself or about yourself that would be better in God’s eyes. So today, I encourage you to let go of the persona of these worldly things, and the striving to keep up, and just be wholeheartedly you—no matter where you are in life and no matter how you feel.
You’ve been criticizing yourself for years, doubting yourself for years, feeling inadequate for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
“In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will.” (Ephesians 1: 11)
by Linsey Driskill 
by Krystal Sieben 
