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back of a room hearing words she had never heard before—words foreign to her heart—words from a group of college students. But what Dorie heard couldn’t be true! God didn’t love her. God couldn’t love her. Nobody loved her!
    As the students prepared to leave, one of them turned around and spoke slowly with such sincerity that Dorie was stunned. The student said, “Even if you forget everything we have told you, remember— God loves you .”
    Though words can’t explain it, she knew it was true, and she spoke directly to God. “They said you love me. Nobody else does. If you want me, you can have me!” That very instant an unexpected peace settled over her. She knew: This must be God .
    At that point, she grabbed hold of that love and held on to God—and He never let her go. But even more, He says His love is never ending—for us all. 24 He says ...
    “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3)
    KEY VERSE TO MEMORIZE
    “Look at the birds of the air;
they do not sow or reap
or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?”
(Matthew 6:26)
Key Passage to Read and Reread
Psalm 139
H OW TO K NOW Y OUR R EAL W ORTH
Realize that God knows all about you! (vv. 1–6)
Remember that God is always with you! (vv. 7–12)
Respect the fact that God created you! (vv. 13–14)
Recognize that God uniquely designed you! (vv. 15–16)
Receive God’s loving thoughts toward you! (vv. 17–18)
Renounce God’s enemies as enemies to you! (vv. 19–22)
Respond to God’s changing you! (vv. 23–24)
    If you feel as though you have little value, is it possible your feelings are false? Remember the Bible says you are “worth [your] weight in gold” (Lamentations 4:2). Just think about how much worth that would literally be! If gold were selling at $250 per ounce, 1 pound (16 ounces) of gold would be worth $4,000. A person weighing 150 pounds would be worth $600,000—well over half a million dollars. 25
    Interestingly, the Bible presents a person’s worth as too great to be measured in mere monetary terms. Peter says your faith alone is “of greater worth than gold” (1 Peter 1:7). Are you beginning to see how much you , combined with your faith , are worth in the eyes of God? You are indeed precious to God. You have God-given worth.
    “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1)
    Pray, “Heavenly Father,
I confess my sin of (_________) to You,
and I am willing to turn from it.
Thank You for Your forgiveness.
I will rely on the power of Christ within me
to overcome my times of temptation.
Thank You for Your
grace and mercy toward me.
In Jesus name I pray. Amen.”
HOW TO Get Rid of Your Guilt
    Dorie understands the waves of guilt with which countless victims struggle. Victims of childhood sexual abuse typically struggle with guilt even though they are not guilty of the abuse. A reason for the ongoing after-the-fact guilt is that they think or wonder whether they could have taken actions to lessen or stop the abuse. And because everyone has periodic sin (not doing what is right in God’s sight, whether in attitude or action), false guilt can get tangled together with true guilt.
    Being pounded by prolonged guilt can strike a most damaging blow to your sense of worth, leaving you feeling dejected, discouraged, and demoralized. The problem with guilt is that it wears two faces—one is true, the other false.
False guilt is Satan’s way to shame you, condemn you, and produce disabling discouragement in you.
True guilt is God’s loving way to convict you, correct you, and conform you into the image of Christ so that you will reflect His character more accurately.
    Godly sorrow over true guilt moves you to repentance, forgiveness, and freedom. Worldly sorrow produced by false guilt moves you to depression, despair, and death.