We Are Enough

<p>Sometimes I feel like I am not enough. I feel like I am not trying hard enough or doing big enough things with my life. I feel bad for not being as successful as others. You may have days like that too. You might have days when you mess up and you feel like you’re not good enough. You might have days when you fail to get into the college you wanted to attend, or you don’t land the job you were excited about, or when you feel like the dreams you have for yourself don’t compare with the dreams your friends have.</p><p>.</p><p>But our value in God’s eyes has nothing to do with what we have accomplished, or what we are hoping to accomplish. Our value in God’s eyes has nothing to do with the way we act or how perfect we are. Our value in God’s eyes is based solely on the fact that we are human and He created us in His image (Genesis 1:27). He loves us no matter what we do and no matter what we accomplish. As Christians, we know God’s love is unshakable because He became human and died and rose again for us, beating sin and death so that we could be with Him forever (Romans 8:38-39).</p><p>.</p><p>God chose to love us before we even turned to Him, and that is a great sign of how He feels about us. We are enough because He loves us. We do not have to accomplish anything to be seen and cared for by Him. • Emily Acker</p><p>.</p><p>• Jesus came to die for you while you were still a sinner and an enemy of God. In fact, God loved you so much that He chose to save you before He created the world—before you had ever done anything good or bad (Ephesians 1:4-5; 1 John 4:19). How might it be freeing to know that God’s love is not affected by what you do or don’t do, and that forgiveness for all your sins is accomplished through Jesus’s death on the cross, the ultimate expression of love?</p><p>.</p><p>• We all need Jesus’s love and forgiveness. To find out more about what this means, check out our "Know Jesus" page.</p><p>.</p><p>But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Roman