Presented by Julie Busteed

Do you know you are a child of the King? Do you live in that reality? Years ago, I remember my Aunt Fran sending me a paper gold crown in the mail with a note that said, “You are a princess. You are a child of the King.”

At the time, I laughed and shook my head and said that’s Aunt Franny for you—sending and doing these crazy things. But as I reflect on it—and she did get her point across because I remember it all these years later—it was a great reminder of my true identity. Because I know Christ and am his, he is my King. That makes me royalty.

We have so many titles for ourselves. We have our job titles and roles. We are also wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends. We also identify ourselves by where we live or where we were born. There’s so much talk about which generation we belong to—a Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, Gen Z, Alpha. Maybe you identify yourself by how many followers or likes you have on social media. There are so many ways to identify ourselves. But what is your true identity?

What you think about yourself—what you say to yourself—has an incredible impact on how you behave and live out your life.

If you are a Christ follower, the most important thing is to find out what God’s Word has to say. We’ll talk about five ways God sees us, and in turn how we should rightly view ourselves.

Starting at the beginning in Genesis we learn we are made in his image.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis 1:26-27).

When you stop and mediate on this truth, it’s astounding. The creator of this world created us in his own image. He gifted us with unique talents, skills, emotions, and minds. Psalm 139 says we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Our self-value or worth is not in what we think about ourselves, our bodies, or our lives. We have value because we are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God.