A Prayer for When You Feel Worthless

Lord, there is a voice inside that has been talking all day, and it says I am useless, a burden, a disappointment to everyone who has to deal with me. It feels less like an opinion and more like a fact, and I am exhausted from arguing with it.

I confess I have started to believe it. I look at my failures and my unanswered messages and my unfinished life and the verdict seems obvious, guilty of not being enough.

But I am bringing that cruel voice to You, because I no longer trust myself to judge my own worth. You see me more clearly and more kindly than I see myself.

Speak louder than the accusation. Remind me that my value was never something I earned by performing, and so it is not something I can lose by struggling. Help me reach toward people who can reflect the truth back to me when I cannot hold it alone.

You knit me together and call Your works wonderful, and You say I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Let those words land in the place that aches.

I lay down the false verdict and the heavy gavel I have been holding against myself. Take them. You do not make junk, and You did not start with me. I am Yours, and that is worth more than how I feel today. Amen.