Have you ever wondered if your life was worth anything? Have you ever wonder if you have an impact? Do people tell you you have the scripture all wrong and that the ministry you are doing is in vain?
We have all heard at some point in our life that we are worthless, and we will not amount to anything. These words are hurtful and meant to cut us down, and break our spirits. People do this to elevate themselves and make their own life more important. But does it really help them become better, or elevate them?
Paul tells the Philippians:
3 I thank my God every time I remember you, 4constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, 5because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. 6I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. 7It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel. 8For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. 9And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight10to help you to determine what is best, so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, 11having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
God will complete the good He started among you to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. God who started something in you will bring it to a completion. He will make sure the good works you do in His mission through His power will be done. So no matter who tells you you are worthless, or incompetent, or not able to do anything, you can tell them they are wrong. Because God who has begun a good work in you will complete it, and God makes no mistakes, so you are not a mistake because God made you!
Paul continues “It is right for me to think this way about all of you, for all of you share in God’s grace with me” We all share in God’s grace and are therefore His creation and His working. So you are not doing anything in vain, even in the time you do not understand what is happening and the world seems to come in all around you. When you are walking through the valley of the shadow of death when it seems that God is not there, He is with you and will complete the work He began in you.
Live in the day and know that God is working in and through you. So you are not in vain and your life has impact.
aSacredRebel 
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