Who told you that you aren’t all that? Who told you that there was nothing special about you? Who told you that you were useless, that you would never amount to anything? You are all that and then some. Your life is filled with purpose.

I want to challenge what you have come to believe about yourself. You may wonder what gives me the authority to speak on this issue. I’ll get to that. Without sounding like I’m giving myself a colossal pat on the back – I want to qualify myself by putting up my personal experience and testimony.

I spent the first 40 years of my life being told how useless I was. I was told I was fat, loud, overly emotional and unintelligent. I was told I was “simple-minded” and should be content to find myself a man who would accept me as I was. Many cruel names were given to me – they became my identity. I believed everything that was said about me because the words were spoken by people I loved and trusted. Every word cut deep and carved a scar of untruth that reached far into my soul, into my identity, into my very core.

It wasn’t until a brush with suicide brought me to call out to God. I needed to be loved. I needed to be protected. I needed to know that I wasn’t fundamentally bad.
Have you been told hurtful things about yourself? Do you think you’re “not all that”? Lies. Stop believing the lies. You are more than you know, and you have a purpose. You are so loved by God and He wants you to be His child.

Psalm 139 is a psalm that tells us who we are and what we mean to God – how very special each of us is in His eyes. He has made each one of us with personality and has given us gifts and talents unique to our purpose that He calls forth in us.

“For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.”

You are all that and more, says God Almighty – the Creator of the universe – your Creator. Whose words speak life into you? Make a choice to believe Him. He who created you has spoken over you. You are all that and more.