Worth

2 Thess. 1:11, “Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,”

The root meaning of “worthy” is:

Weighing as much as, of like value, worth as much. It means having the weight of another thing and so being of like value or worth as much. In other words axios has the root meaning of balancing the scales—what is on one side of the scale should be equal in weight to what is on the other side. By extension, axios came to be applied to anything that was expected to correspond to something else. A person worthy of his pay was one whose day’s work corresponded to his day’s wages.¹

So, God ‘worthies’ me in His Son by grace. I am worth it. All can forsake and abandon me, but my worth is His death and death on a cross for me. I partake of this grace and it worthies me. I am predestined by grace in Christ Jesus through the Spirit of adoption to be a child of the Father according to His good will and pleasure. Christ’s sacrificial blood and body worthies me to be a son just as much as Christ whereby I cry, “Abba, Father” as an adult son and not an infant child. I am a co-heir with Christ of the inheritance He has for me. By revelation and grace, I am, am growing into and partaking of His righteousness according to the hearing of the word of truth and faith. Since I partake of His essence by grace, this worthies me into the kingdom of the Father’s beloved Son, Col. 1:13. There is nothing that can be reckoned to my account to to unworthy me in Christ before the Father. Now, I have boldness to approach the throne of grace. His presence can dwell in me now by grace and faith.