YOU are somebody!

By Carl Kimbro, with Fellowship Bible Church Celebrate Recovery Devotional Team 6/5/19


Recently I saw a grave stone that had no name on it. Where the name should have been, it simply said “I was Somebody.” Did they feel unloved in life? Did they think no one cared? Had they been told growing up they had no value? It saddened me to think that this person felt so unimportant that they needed people to see them as “somebody” after they died. Perhaps they were looking for their “value” in the wrong sources. For a person’s true value lies in having a relationship with their Lord and Savior Jesus.

Often when struggling with our hurts, habits, and hang ups, we, too, look for our value in other things – jobs, family, sports, external appearance, and a host of other meaningless things that no longer matter after we die. We move from one thing to another, always looking for self-worth and always failing. If only we would turn to the true source of value, Jesus!

“This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us 
and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John 4:10.

Christ’s mission is God’s revelation of His love for us. A Holy God, a perfect God, looked upon our imperfections and still loved us enough to send his Son to die for our sins. God didn’t wait until we earned His love. He didn’t wait until we were leading a perfect life. He looked upon us and our messy sinned-filled lives and loved us unconditionally. God reached down during our misery and pulled us up out of our mess to Him through His Son Jesus. We weren’t looking for Him. But He was looking for us!  What greater love can there be than this!

If you feel unloved, if you feel like no one can love you with the struggles you have. If you think you don’t matter, think again. We are somebody when we know Jesus as Lord and Savior. We don’t have to prove ourselves. He loves us unconditionally. He looks down on us in all our good and bad days and reminds us, “You are my cherished child. I love you, and you’re not a nobody. YOU are somebody!

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