Securing Your Self Worth

Securing Your Self Worth

Acts 12:25; 13:1-3

By Kurai Chitima

Life is short. Will you leave behind something better than what you inherited from the previous generation? The future is coming towards us faster than we think. To finish well you have to fulfill your purpose. Fulfillment of purpose requires alignment, assignment and achievement. The grace of God for your purpose waits for you and works in your place of assignment/appointment. You need to be faithful to your ministry specifics - matching purpose, place, position, time and associations.  Doing the right thing with the right people at the right time, in the right place for the right reasons. Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time and place have coincided.

In Acts 13:1-3 the Holy Spirit points Paul and Barnabas to their appointment for the next season of their lives. To arrive at this clarity of direction Paul has come through a lot. He had to forget the past (Phil 3:13) - regrets about persecuting believers, bitterness because of rejection he suffered after his conversion, etc. Instead, with Barnabas’ encouragement he was busy doing something for God (Acts 11:26, 30). Now he is with prophets and others fasting and ministering to the Lord.  God then said separate Paul and Barnabas for a work/assignment I have prepared for them. God prepares a place for you, which is easiest, and then He prepares you for the place and leads you to the place. Paul and Barnabas were commissioned to a God ordained role. 

Faithfulness in your place and season of appointment will bear fruit. If not immediately, it will eventually. We believe God has appointed us to Faith Ministries Johannesburg FLC. We will be faithful and see his great power. God’s grace, provision, favor and presence are stored up for you in your divinely ordained sphere.

In the world, a person’s worth is closely tied to his/her assignment. One’s performance in the assignment determines meaning, self worth and significance. Self worth is the feeling or perception you have about yourself. You are constantly evaluating yourself based on information such as what you have been through - past disappointments, relational failures, abuses, rejections, comparisons with our peers, academic degrees, profession, bank balance, etc. Often a wrong standard is used. The right evaluation standard is God’s word. What you say to yourself about yourself is more powerful/deadly than what others say about you. Others believe your view and treat you accordingly. Assignments and performance can change making one’s worth to fluctuate.  That is why the older or incapacitated one is the more miserable they become.

In Christ, however your assignment does not define your worth. You have intrinsic value. Your worth is secured/anchored in Christ. It is not so much what you do but who you are and who asked you to do it.  

> The Father chose you (Eph 1:4). He did so well in his infinite wisdom and grace. He wanted you to be like him.

> The Son paid the penalty for your sins (John 3:16). You are worth the life of God’s Son. You are more precious than anything else is in this world.

> The Holy Spirit resides in you (Eph 3:20).  Even if you had no worth, his presence in you gives you eternal worth.