Already Worthy, Already Loved: A Devotional For The Tired Hearts

Best-selling Christian author, Rebecca Simon, poetically explains why you can find peace today and you don’t need to let anything steal your peace. Read more of Rebecca’s writing here.

Not all pressure is loud. Some of it moves quietly into your mind, unnoticed—like the subtle belief that your worth is something you must maintain. It doesn’t announce itself. It disguises itself as responsibility, as ambition, as the pursuit of excellence. And yet, without fanfare, it begins to reshape your life.

You start measuring your days not by the joy you’ve known or the love you’ve received but by what you’ve produced. You begin to equate your value with how much you’ve carried, how well you’ve performed, how little you’ve needed. Slowly, without realizing it, you start to believe that rest is weakness, that softness is risk, that love is something earned and not freely given.

But God never asked you to live this way. The world may reward your burnout. It may applaud your ability to hold everything together without falling apart. But heaven tells a different story. God does not celebrate your constant striving—He calls you back to trust. He calls you back to stillness. You were never created to outrun your exhaustion or to stretch yourself so thin that you forget who you are. You were created to walk with Him, and every time you trade connection for performance, you lose sight of the steady, unshakable love that was never based on your output in the first place.

Remember—God is not asking you to be invincible. He is asking you to trust that He is. He is strong where you are weak. He is whole where you are broken. Your value was never meant to be something you maintain through effort. It was never something you had to fight to keep. It was spoken over you before you ever proved a thing. And it remains true now: you are already worthy, already chosen, already deeply loved.

It is time to return to that quiet. It is time to return to the God who has never once measured you by what you could produce, but only by how deeply He loves you.

Prayer

God, I’ve grown used to the pressure of doing more, of holding more, of proving more — and I’m exhausted. Teach me how to live from a place of trust instead of fear. Help me let go of the belief that I need to earn your grace. Reintroduce me to the strength found in your still- ness, to the peace that comes from resting in your love. Amen.