Lies Women Believe About Themselves

Seeing Myself as God Sees Me
Chapter 3 -- Pages 63-67

The first lie we may believe about ourselves has to do with our worth. Many of us feel inferior and worthless. The problem arises when we allow others to decide our value instead of accepting the Truth that, if we are in Christ, we are dearly loved children of God.

It's important to know that God's perspective of you and me is very different than what we may have heard on the playground when we were children, or from a coach in school, or from a parent because of anger or stress.

Instead of continuing to be negatively influenced by those lies from the past, let's learn from the Word what God's assessment is.

What does the Lord think about us?

Psalm 139:16-18 (The Message)

"Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day. Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! I couldn't even begin to count them— any more than I could count the sand of the sea."

Romans 8:1-2 (The Message)

"With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death."

1 Peter 2:9 (The Message)

"But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted."

In Christ, we have been transformed "from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted."

We have value.

That's the Truth.

Love, Karen