As You Love Yourself

The most important relationship you have is your relationship with yourself. If you do not get along with yourself, you won’t be able to get along with anybody else. If will affect every relationship, including your relationship with God. If you are living under guilt, felling condemned and unworthy, you won’t go to God with boldness. You won’t ask Him for your dreams. The reason that many people can’t get along with others is because they do not like themselves. They are insecure, they are bitter, they are defensive and it spills over into their relationship. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. You cannot love your neighbor if you do not first love yourself. You do not have a healthy respect for yourself, if you are not putting on His approval each day, knowing that you are masterpiece, knowing that you are make in the image of God, then you will start focusing on your faults and shortcomings. You will end up feeling insecure and inferior. That will cause you to struggle in relationships.

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If you are acknowledging everything you do not like about yourself, your flaws, your shortcoming, you failures, your faith is not going to be effective. That is going to cause you to get stuck. You have enough to overcome in life as it is. Do not be against yourself. Quit taking inventory of everything you do not like. Sometimes we spend more time looking at what’s wrong with us than we do looking at what is right with us. It should be just the opposite. Start acknowledging the good. Let me help you start right now. You were kind to that stranger that was good. You were kind to that stranger that was good. You over looked that insult that was good. There is a lot right about you.

Even physical, we tend to focus on what we do not like and Say, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am one of a kind. I am a master piece. Something powerful happens when you say, I like who I am. I am not perfect and I have some shortcomings, but I am growing, I am changing. And since God approves me, I am going to approve myself. When you do this, chains are broken in the unseen real, chains of inferiority. When you are for yourself, you are in agreement with God.

Some people have never once said, I like myself. I like my gifts. I like my personality. I like my looks. I am happy with God made me to be. But if you do not like yourself in a healthy way, other people are not going to like you. You project what you believe on the inside. If you feel wrong about yourself, you will project inferiority, unfriendliness and discontentment to others. I am asking you to feel good about who you are. You may not be where you want to be, but you are on the way. God is changing you from glory to glory. Start enjoying the glory that you are in right now. You may have some weakness, we all do. Do not you dare go through life being against yourself.

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