“I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough,” Lauren Daigle. Read Psalm 103:3-6. “You Say” by Dagle was already a hit in Christian music before she sang it at the Grammys in 2019. I remember watching it live on TV and thinking, “That first line is going to hit hard, and people are going to identify with it.” Did it ever! After she sang it at the Grammys, her album reached #3 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200, showing its appeal to an unchristian audience. Here are the first four lines of the song:

“I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough

Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up

Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?

Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know.”

This month our sermon series is called 'Demon Hunters'. I like to take the month of October and look into some of the darker themes of human life that Scripture addresses to give hope to the hopeless. We often think of demons as spiritual entities that do the devil’s bidding and try to keep people from God. Although that would be a fun topic to tackle, I’m more focused on the demons we create ourselves within us that contradict what God says. Lauren Daigle captures the demon of worthlessness perfectly in her song. The voice of the demon within us tells us we are not enough, we will never measure up, we are worthless. In the song, she turns to God for reassurance. Who am I, God? What do you say? The Psalmist wrote that you are redeemed from the pit and crowned with love and compassion. (103:3) Another Psalmist wrote, “You are fearfully and wonderfully made.” (139:14) Lauren Daigle’s powerful voice rang out for the whole world to hear God’s answer.

“You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing

You say I am strong when I think I am weak

And You say I am held when I am falling short

And when I don't belong, oh, You say I am Yours.

I believe.”

What do you believe? Do you believe the lies inside your head? Or will you trust God and believe what God says about you? Let’s not just believe what God says about ourselves, but let us see every human being on the planet as precious and made in God’s image. Life is worth living when we can free ourselves from the lies of the world and the lies inside our own head.

Lord Jesus, thank you for calling us to belong to you. Give us clarity to know who we are in God’s sight. Give us courage to chase the demons away and let the world know who we are and who they can become by trusting you also. Amen.