(On October 2009 I wrote:)
You could not have persuaded me yesterday of anything positive about myself. I would have had a negative answer for everything you said. I was determined to believe myself worthless.
But why not be determined to find worth and value? Why be determined to see the no value in a finite life. Why not rather see its eternal value and consequence?
No matter what anyone thinks about your worth, God provided his life for yours even when you did not know about it. He thought – and thinks – a lot about you.
It is an insult to God to denigrate what what he thinks and does.