All for "a like"

You take the time to get it right. You take out, or ask to be taken out, several. Well, you know that you won't be satisfied with just one. Next comes the process of deciding which one you will use, since you don't want to publish the same one more than once. Finally, you decide on one... but the complicated 'caption' is missing. You are looking for a catchy phrase, even if it doesn't necessarily have to do with what you are about to publish. Once published, you can't stop paying attention. Well, at the end of the day, you went through work and did "everything for a like."

We live disconnected from reality. We have created another that is public, and manipulable. In order to please our followers or cyber friends we are capable of many things, especially pretending. How difficult it has become to have a clear and defined identity in our society. We have allowed what others think or like about us to define who we are. Social networks have trapped us. It has been a phenomenon that has benefited us in many ways. But we cannot take out of perspective the impact it has had on our emotional health and our self-esteem.

The need to seek the approval that comes from God has been lost from perspective. We have preferred to please men, over pleasing God. And if we sought to please others, we would not be servants of Christ (Galatians 1:10). God has made us in his image and likeness. God knows the heart of each of us, because he created us. The human being does not try to see the interior, he focuses only on the external. But God is not like us, he does look at what is in our hearts (1 Samuel 16:7). God loves us for who we are. That love is incomparable, eternal and it is impossible for us to be separated from it.

It is necessary that we ReDefine our identity. We must ask ourselves: Who (or what) defines what we are? Am I trying to please God? Is your approval the most important to me? Only God has the clear answers. No one has better defined who you are, since before you were born, like God did. God is an artist, and we are his work of art. The Bible is full of definitions that teach us who we are to God. Today I invite you to look for each of these. Well, they have been written for you, thousands of years ago, and they are still relevant today. Keep them in your heart, write them in a visible place, study each one of these, share them with others and remember every day what you mean to God. I want to share with you just some of the many that you can find. You are light in the world (Matthew 5:13). You are a friend of God (John 15:15). You are a new person (2 Corinthians 5:17). You are a chosen race (1 Peter 2:9-10). You are important to God.

You are worth so much to God that he sent his only son to die on a cross for love of you. God shed His blood so that you would be saved. In Isaiah 43:3, in the Current Language Translation version, it says “Israel I love you; you are worth a lot to me. To save your life and for you to be my people, I had to pay a high price..." Even if the world rejects you, and you fail to please them, remember what you are worth to God. Throughout the Bible we can see how God took ordinary people because he had extraordinary plans for them. God wants to redirect your steps. God has already defined your life.

Let's do one last exercise. Reread or write this verse, and where it says Israel put your name. Today God tells you “_______ I love you; “You are worth a lot to me.”