Maybe you have noticed them too, the commercials for a website where you can find out who your ancestors are. They always feature someone who found something cool or unique in their past. I don't know about you but my wife and I both have a strong desire to go and try it out. As I was thinking about why we have that desire, it hit me. Everyone needs to feel validated. Everyone as a desire to know that their existence is important and valuable, and if we can find some historical event or important person in our past it helps us to feel more important today. Or, maybe we are just look for a rich relative that left a ton of money to the next of kin!
The beauty of knowing Christ is that we don't need anything else to validate us. We are important and valuable because of who He is. 1 John 4:19 says we love because He first loved us. We are, because He loved. Romans 5:8 says "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
It is not about who your ancestors are! It's about who you are in Christ. Loved!
