CLE Reflection

Child of God

“When God looks at you, He sees you as His precious child not your sin. Your sins can never define who you truly are.”
-Anonymous

What does being a child of God really mean? Does it mean being more holier than the regular person? Does it mean your self-worth somehow is greater and mightier than the rest of the world’s self worth?

Let me tell you a mind-blowing fact. Ready? You will always be more valuable than how much you think you already are. Your self-worth in reality will always be greater than how you think it already is. Now that is the truth.

Let that fact sink in.

Who are you?

Usually we tend to forget this fact because we are ashamed. We are ashamed of who we are, what we’ve done, or even where we came from. We’d always feel that we’re unworthy of His love because we are nothing.

But that is not true, that is far from the truth.

You are worthy. You are a child of God. You’re worthy of love, success, support, health, and happiness. You’re worthy of exactly what you desire in your life. Stop holding back and limiting yourself because you believe you’re unworthy.

 

Are We Really Worthy?

For so long, I’ve always thought that this world was not worthy of loving. This is because I saw the people living inside of it filled with hate, vanity, lust, anger, and sin. I mean, why would God love a world like ours? Our world is messed up. We have been given something to beautiful and we managed to twist it into something so horribly disfigured.

We live in a world where we hide food from the people who need them the most. We live in a world where people would rather end their lives than be themselves;  a world where vanity has been rewarded and selflessness has been forgotten, and a world where the death of a innocent infants is acceptable because raising and welcoming them to life would be such a big responsibility. We live in a world where people would practice violence in broad daylight and where animals are killed and tortured just for fun. We live in a world that doesn’t care.

Why would our God love a world that is so flawed and imperfect? Why would He even bother looking at us when we are like this? Why would He look at us when we’re so filthy?

Well… along the way, I realized why.

 

We Need Love

“Do you rob a child of food when he desperately needs it? Do you rob him of love when constantly looks for it?”
-Anonymous

That is because love is the only thing that enlightens the blindness that fills this world. God loves us because we still are His children. God loves us because He knows we need His love… now more than ever.

He sees a world that does not care, so He loves us to show us how to care. It is like guiding or comforting a child throwing a tantrum, you cannot comfort him with anger, you comfort Him with love. God knows that, He always has.  We learn to love because He loved us first. We learn to care because He cares for us.

 

Does His Love Truly Belong To Us?

“God’s mercy is bigger than any of your mistakes.”
Lamentations 3:22-23

He loves us because we need His love. We are nothing without His love.

We are made in His image and likeness and we are worthy of His love.  We are His children. God proved his love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God’s way of saying “I love you,” to the world.

No mistake that we ever made can ever define who we truly are. We are made in His image and likeness, we are destined for greatness. So even as we stray off our paths, He continues to love us so that we can follow His tracks. His love belongs to us because we are destined to show this love to others.

You cannot teach someone to love unless you love them too. God teaches us to love even when we are at worst so that we can love this world even at its worst. We are human and we are flawed, God has accepted that. But just because He has accepted this does not mean we should stay how we originally are.

God finds us worthy of love because He looks past our mistakes or our flaws. He did not die for a mistake, He knew our worth and now it’s time that we prove Him right. It’s time that we show Him that we are worth dying for, we are worth loving. It is time for us to change. It's time for us to stop believing in the lies that we have always been told. It's time for us to start remembering that we are worthy.

We should choose to change, we should choose to love.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey Him genuinely and learn to also serve others, we develop God’s love in our lives. Love of God is the way of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the flaws of this world.

But what do we do to get this love? We accept it, and we choose it.

We accept that we are truly children of God because we really are. We are worthy of His love and worthy to love Him back. We are destined for greatness and our actions can change the world. We are children of God…. That is the truth.

Choose to believe this fact, love others as He has loved you. Live this world reminded that you are destined to change it in every way that you could.

What Do You Do Now?

“God does not love us because we are valuable, rather we are valuable because God loves us.”
-Anonymous

Live as a child of God because you are one. Choose Him. Walk the path towards greatness and meet Him at the end of the road.

Always believe that you will always be more valuable than how much you think you already are. Always remember that you are worthy of life and of God. 

You are a child of God.

Live for Him, live for God.