There’s Beauty In Your Brokenness (Excerpt from the leaders of “Her True Worth”)

We are super honored to feature a new release from our friends at “Her True Worth”: There’s Beauty In Your Brokenness: 90 Devotions to Surrender Striving, Live Unburdened, and Find Your Worth In Christ (Thomas Nelson, July 11, 2023). In this lovely devotional, you will find personal stories pointing to scripture and speaking to your incredible worth in Christ. A special thanks to Icon Media Group for the excerpt featured here. We hope you will pick up a copy of There’s Beauty In Your Brokenness.

A Bad Day Doesn’t Equal A Bad Life

By: Brittany Maher

Have you ever had the kind of day when nothing seems to go right? Maybe you got into a bad argument with your spouse or family member. Maybe it’s a bunch of little things that keep adding up:

• You got zero sleep because your baby was teething.
• Your old phone keeps freezing up.
• You hit every stoplight while running late.
• You spilled your coffee on your new shirt.
• Your day doesn’t go as planned.

These are typically minor issues (and what some call “first-world problems”). But small frustrations can add up, especially if we aren’t taking our frustration to God.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but here’s a friendly reminder: a bad day doesn’t equal a bad life.

Don’t allow the Enemy to make you feel like you have a horrible life. The Enemy’s goal is to change your mindset from blessed to stressed. But you, my dear, have so many blessings.

He wants you to see everything through a lens of frustration and look for problems, almost like an inspector looking for deficiencies. This is no way to live your life. If you look for problems, then guess what? That’s exactly what you’ll find. But the opposite is true too: if you look for blessings, you will find them.

So what if you decided that a bad day doesn’t equal a bad life and that tomorrow will be better? When you wake up in the morning, what if you said to yourself that “this is the day that the Lord has made; let’s rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24 csb).

If you start to have one of those days and catch yourself going into “inspector mode,” check yourself. Challenge yourself to count your blessings. Pray and remind God of all the things He has blessed you with. Name three to start, and I bet your day will begin to turn around.

And if all else fails, remember: this, too, shall pass.

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Excerpted from There’s Beauty in Your Brokenness: 90 Devotions to Surrender Striving, Live Unburdened, and Find Your Worth in Christ by Brittany Maher and Cassandra Speer. Copyright © 2023 Brittany Maher and Cassandra Speer. Used by permission of Thomas Nelson. harpercollinschristian.com. 

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About the Author

Brittany Maher is a kingdom-minded minister and a bestselling author. She is also an evangelist with a burning heart for the broken and lost. She is the founder of Her True Worth, a large and growing online community with the sole mission of empowering an entire generation of faith-filled women with the freedom found in discovering their true worth that is in Christ. She and her husband Ryan invest most of their time in equipping God’s people for digital evangelism across the globe. They believe in the importance of using every tool they can to help bring people to a saving knowledge of Jesus. Brittany is planted in Michigan with her husband, Ryan and their daughter, Ariana. https://www.instagram.com/brittmaher/

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