You Are More

This week has actually been kinda difficult, to be completely honest.

I've been faced with temptation more than I have in an extremely long time

It sucked.

But, there were three words that got me through some rough temptation.

YOU ARE MORE.

There's a new song by Tenth Avenue North by the same title, and the chorus has been ringing in my mind throughout this season.

It goes:

You are more than the choices that you make.

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes.

You are more than the problems you create.

You've been remade.

That's so true, and it's something I forget.

A lot. 

I mean, when the world is screaming at you to look and act a certain way or be scorned by society, it's very easy to feel like you're trash and no one could ever love or care about you.

But, because you were made and are loved by the one perfect God of the universe, you're worth SO much more that anything in this world.

He loved us enough to send His Son to die a horrible death so we could spend eternity with Him.

I tend to forget that in the face of temptation.

The devil constantly screams lies at us, and it's easy to believe them because they often agree with what the world is telling us.

We watched a video in youth today about how when we feel the most broken and hurt, that's the times when we're closed to God.

That's something I've never truly thought of before.

Props to Rob Bell for that.

I'm trying to live my life in the belief that I am more than all the stupid junk I've done in my life.

It won't always be easy, but with Him, I can do anything.

-Kati