What do you see?

My Facebook feed is a right mix of dross and gold. One of my friends is posting a daily countdown until the new Star Wars film comes out on my wall which is kind of funny until you realise there are 167 more near identical posts to come. Every. Single. Day.

A lot of us use social media to keep in touch, share news, store photos and post the occasional dank meme.

Others use it as their personal PR firm letting you see a Pinterest version of their life where every day is sunny, the good times keep rolling and every meal is an Instagram worthy stroke of culinary genius #torrentialrain #notreallylikethat #actuallyjustbeansontoastmate

Our self worth is affected by three closely related sources: How we see ourselves, how we think other people see us and how other people really do see us.

Check this video out:

I found some of that hard to watch, folks can be pretty grim - particularly when protected by the anonymity that the Internet provides.

The point? That we can spend forever trying to attain or pretend to have attained some level of perfection but unless we recognise the value we have simply for being human, for being you and made in God's image to reflect some of his wonder then your self worth is always going to be like trying to catch the wind.

My faith confronts me with my flaws and my weaknesses, God's holiness can leave me feeling pretty small, but they always lead me to Jesus who shows me that I was still worth dying for.

So, to finish as I started; What do you see and whose voice do you listen to?


Rich