People will form their own opinions about who they think we are. How easy it is to label someone based on what we think we know. Maybe it is their education, their wealth, title, popularity or fame. Although I have learned in life that it is truly in their character what makes a person great. It is the way that they love God and people. The way that they treat others. Education is important, but it is not what defines a person. No amount of wealth can buy good character. A title does not make one better. To be popular does not make one more important. Fame does not equal superiority. We need to spend more time loving each other and building each other up and helping one another when in need. Most importantly we need to fixate our eyes on God and love Him better. For when we love God better, we can better be the people that He designed us to be. When we love others well, we are loving like Him and just as we are called. Friend, may our character be good and reflective of the people that God has called us to be. For nothing creates truly good character better than when we love God and people. We are valued and worthy because of God and His infallible love and what Jesus did for us on the cross. May we remember to focus on who God says we are and not who the world tells us we are. For the world’s opinions can never match God’s. It is His opinion that matters. It is who He says that we are. We must remember to not let the world label us and our worth. For we are beyond worthy. We were created in God’s image and we’re to die for. Every single one of us has value and a purpose for His glory. God has called us worthy. May we treat one another with that same love. Truly, there is nothing more wonderful than to be loved so deeply, by the creator of the universe and there is something so beautiful about striving to love one another with that same kind of love.

Erin Fitts-Brower

1 Samuel 16:7 NIV

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

Ephesians 4:1-3 NIV

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

Galatians 5:22-23 NIV

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

John 3:16 NIV

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Isaiah 43:4 NIV

Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.

Mark 12:30-31 NIV

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.