Is Your Worth in Your Work?

During one season of my corporate career, the company I worked for rolled out a new initiative. Each year, they would choose a single work to capture the vision and rally employees toward a common goal. That year, the word was accelerate.

I remember blinking at the screen in disbelief. Accelerate?! We were already moving at a breakneck pace. How could they expect us to go even faster?

I felt defeated and discouraged. I'd invested years in that company, but in that moment I realized that if I continued to find self-worth and my identity in my work there I was destined to be disappointed and to never feel like I was enough.

That moment was a turning point. It opened my eyes to a much bigger issue—one that so many of us face.

🚫 The Lie: Your Work Is Your Worth

Let’s be honest—our culture is relentless in pushing the lie that our value is measured by our productivity. We're praised for hustling harder, glorifying busy schedules, and constantly chasing the next achievement. Phrases like “fake it till you make it” and “sleep when you’re dead” aren’t just clichés—they’re the mantras of a world that equates doing with being. But all this striving doesn’t lead to a sense of worthiness—it leads to burnout. It’s like running on a treadmill that never stops and only speeds up. Why? Because our worth was never meant to come from what we do—it comes from who we are in Christ.

✅ The Truth: You Are Already Loved and Chosen

Let's to back to the beginning. The very beginning, Creation. The book of Genesis tells us that during the first five and a half days of creation God created light and darkness, the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, the plants and the trees, birds, fish and animals. As God completed each creative act He "saw that it was good." Everything God had created He proclaimed to be good.

But then, on the sixth day, something shifted. God created humanity—not just as another part of creation, but in His own image. And for the first time, God didn’t just call what He made “good”—He called it very good.

At the very beginning. At the moment of our creation. Before we had done anything. God declared that we were very good. We had intrinsic value and worth to our creator that we'd done nothing to earn. Wow!

But what about after the fall? What about once we had sinned by rebelling against God and not obeying Him? Did our sin make us less valuable to God?

The Bible tells us that there was a penalty for our sin against God and that that penalty was death, eternal separation from God, yet God did not just leave us in that state and walk away, but He took on our human nature, came to earth as a man. lived a sinless life and then died a death He did not deserve, to make a way for us to be reconciled with Him. Why? Because he loved us. We were still worthy of His love in spite of our sin.

Titus 3:5 (NLT) says “He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.” and Ephesians 2:8–9 (NIV) says “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”

So, is your worth in your work? Absolutely not!! Your worth is found in the love of your creator God.

🙋‍♀️ What If You’re Feeling Stuck?

Are you feeling like I did? Stuck on the treadmill of a job that isn't life-giving, but feels like it's draining the life out of you? Wondering if there's a better way? There is. It begins by exchanging the lie that your worth is in your work for the truth that your Creator calls you worthy - and has a beautiful purpose for your life.

🌱 An Invitation to Begin Again

If you're ready to step off the treadmill and into the life God designed for you, I'd love to walk

alongside you. As a Christian Life Coach, I'll help you reconnect with your identity in Christ, renew your mind, and discover the freedom of living on purpose - with purpose - His purpose.