Awakening to Worth

Recently, I started a Bible study focused on self-worth. The first few lessons challenged me to look closely at what I truly believed about God’s love. Which parts of the scriptures about His love for me did I struggle to accept as truth?

As I went through the checklist, my eyes filled with tears and my chest grew heavy. I realized I felt unworthy of love. I thought about the things I had and hadn’t done — the moments of failure and imperfection that made me believe I didn’t deserve God’s love. I had been treating it like something to earn, as if perfection could finally make me worthy.

But as I read more about His love for me, something in me began to break open. In that breaking came both pain and light — a truth shining through the cracks, awakening a healing my soul had been longing for. It wasn’t an instant transformation, but it was a beginning. The heaviness lifted just enough for me to feel a quiet lightness, a small breath of peace.

Learning to see my worth through God’s eyes isn’t about striving or earning anymore. It’s about surrender — letting His love rewrite the story I’ve been telling myself for so long. Because the truth really does set us free, and sometimes that freedom begins in the very place we feel most broken.

Reflection Question

What would it look like to surrender your idea of perfection and rest in grace today?