Podcast
I Am Beautiful and Broken
The Salt Company - Ames
Speaker: Mark Vance
October 10, 2025 · 43 min
Summary
God speaks an identity over you that is sturdier than social construction and more freeing than self-definition. You are beautiful because made in God's image with intrinsic value and purpose, yet broken by sin's curse affecting your relationship with God, others, and creation.
Highlights
I am who God says I am. Not a self-constructed identity or a socially constructed identity, but a divinely spoken identity. God speaks over you an identity of who you are that is sturdier than the old world and more freeing than the modern world.
You are not valuable because of what you do. You are valuable because of who you are. You are valuable because God says you are valuable.
Just because something feels natural to you does not make it good. Because in a sin-cursed world, as a sin-cursed person, there are times when my desires of what feels natural to me will be contrary to the order that God has created me to live in.