Wordle says I am...

Dear Wordle,

I come to you confused.

Your message is mixed.

It isn't consistent. 

Please, 

make up your mind,

which one am I? 

great?

am I so bad I just barely make it in?

 

what's that?

it depends on the day?
on my performance?

wait, am I a failure?

because I didn't solve a few of these...

I know at first glance this may seem to be a silly post. But I want to challenge you to take a minute and think. 

Do you know anyone (or are you that someone) who basis their self worth on things similar to this train of thought? 

Dear friends, don't believe the lies.

Our value does not depend on the day. Or what someone else says about us. Or by how well we guess. Nor how quickly we work out a puzzle. Our failures do not define us. Our value is not measured by our logic or intellect or dumb luck. It is not measured by how well we perform. Or how strong we are, or the shade of our skin or our age or body type or (you fill in the missing words). 

I am loved. You are loved.

I am valuable. You are valuable.

We were enough to die for.

We are wonderfully and fearfully made. 

And it has absolutely nothing to do with anything that originates in us.

It all flows from the God in heaven who longs to be our Father.

He made the way for our adoption to be secure through the death of His Son.

from John 1:1-13 

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it...The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God."

1 John 4:9-10

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."

Romans 5:6-8

"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

from Psalm 139

"You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me...For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,I know that full well...Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

Colossians 1:15-23 
"The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.  For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel.