I commit to valuing what God has given me as enough, including gifting, strength, health, capacity, and influence. I commit to not being jealous of what of these things is given in greater portion (or different kind) to others. I know that in this acceptance of what God has given me as enough – in this is freedom.

I determine in faith that the value of my life is no less than anyone else’s because my life is a possession of God and my heart is an investment of Christ. My life is Christ – so I already have an absolute treasure. This affords me contentment despite being waylaid by broken health and continually disabled from achieving my goals – even the very goals that I thought God purposed for me. He doesn’t actually need me to achieve them for him to love me. Their being withheld from me does not diminish me.

Furthermore, I am valued sufficiently because I am valued by God my Father.

I must not assume to need great impact to secure my worthiness or the worth of my life. I am already worthy because God counts me worthy. Impact, influence, productivity, success, accomplishment – all of these are bonus. My value and my life’s value do not depend on them.

Peace and patience are fruits of the spirit. “Success” and “influence” are not. They are not bad things in themselves. When, however, they are fueled by jealousy, which is a fear of one’s life’s value being less than another’s, or insecurity, which is an inability to affirm one’s own value,  then they – success and influence – are vain and hollow things.

That house will fall.

I can’t afford to live out a discontented seizure of what I am not. I must for the survival of my joy over despair – I must accept as enough the complete affirmation of my God over me. I am valued – definitively. That is enough.

Only in this security can I truly love and celebrate other people.

If I’m fundamentally insecure, living out of a sense that I am not enough or have not done enough, then I am disabled from truly celebrating another person without my worth being threatened. Their beauty and power and accomplishment will be felt as diminishment of my own. If I do not know my worth, then my sincerest attempts to love another will always be hijacked by my fear. I will use my relationship with them in my attempt to achieve my worth. I will attempt to annex their value to compensate for the felt deficit of my own.

If, however, I know that my worth is given to me by God, and that it is enough, then, I live in safety and abundance, not scarcity. I can afford to lift up another above myself for their visibility and admiration, because I know that I am seen and recognized already.

I commit to valuing what God has given me as enough. I commit to valuing the self that God has given me as enough. I will live out who I actually am. I will not live out counterfeits of myself, crafted in fundamental rejection of my given self. I am accepted as I am. I am loved. I am enough. I am not diminished. I cannot be. I am a victory won. In the name of Jesus Christ, I accept myself. I am enough because his devotion to me is enough.