The weight of worth

The Weight of Worth

I saw you field another question today

It's fine, it doesn't matter you replied

I see through the walls around your heart

I know the lies you've held tight to survive

I also know when you say "it"

You actually mean you don't matter

Since believing them when they say you're worthless

Makes the weight of abuse easier to bear

Beloved child, the danger's now gone

The lies will only keep you bound

Though I know the depths of pain it will bring

The truth is also where freedom is found

I created you in your mother's womb

With My very hands I knit you together

I marked you with My fingerprint

The seal of your worth forever

Every adult who kept secrets hidden

Leading you as a lamb to the slaughter

Though they tried every way they knew how

They could not break My seal on you, daughter

I know the one who depended on lies

The man who stripped you and shredded your soul

I see the wounds left deep under the surface

Those marks take the heaviest toll

With every cut he thought he removed

My fingerprint off of your person

But no one has the power, not even him

To strip you of the worth I have given

Every time he looked past the mark of your Maker

With every single wound that you bear

My holy heart breaks and I weep with grief

Yet remember your worth isn't found there

It is found in Me, the Worthy One

Who hung on a criminal's cross

Naked and clothed in shame for you
I know personally the depths of your loss

Yet I conquered the shame others heaped on Me

When they said I didn't matter

I rose victorious and now sit with you

Telling you truth and making lies scatter

You matter to me and you always have

I made you and guarantee your worth

You never deserved what they did to you

But I will bring redemption forth

Now quiet your heart and let the truth sink deep

I will stay close by your side

I'll hold you with the same hands that knit you together

As the weight of your worth overflows your eyes