Measure Of One’s Worth

In joyful and pleasant seasons
In the midst of pain and strife
Many things we may face
In this walk we call life 

As we travel upon this path
We learn to trust in Him
Through good times and the bad
And everything else within

Yet something has remained
Unaware most of our days
A lie that’s somewhat hidden
And subtle in its chains

For the work of our hands
Much satisfaction’s found
And a level of worth
In what we raise from the ground

But when circumstance falls
And opportunities are ripped
From one’s own heart
A level of dignity feels stripped

Ability is then measured
And oft found to be short
When no amount of striving
Has brought forth any fruit

Confidence begins to waver
Self-value begins to flee
And all one can think is
What’s so wrong with me?

But the folly of these thoughts
And where chains often hide
Your value is not in what you do
But who you are inside

For those seasons He had meant
You to rest upon His Promise
For your future provision
As a season of confidence

For the Promises He gives
Are unfailing in His Nature 
Impossible to revoke 
And filled with all His favor 

So when the testing of a season
Finds you on your knee
And if leaning on His Words
Is beyond what you can see

Stored up for you is Confidence
Not in your own provision
For only He Himself alone
Knows what to be given

The value in you He placed
Can’t be increased or removed
By any work of your hands
That you may try to prove

Your dignity is secure
You are a Child of the King
And in Him you will find
The provision for every need

So take a look in that mirror
And rip those chains aside
The ones that say you’re broken
The ones that try to hide

You’re confidence is in Him
Not your own attempts to provide
For you are not on your own
Within Him forever you reside 

Your value has been established 
His promises secure 
And within His Might and Power 
Anything you can endure