Everyone wants to be loved.
Everyone wants to feel loved.
Everyone wants to give love.
How can you love others if you don’t allow God to fully love you?
What about loving yourself?
This is hard for me. This month I’ve been learning to love myself and let God love me with no strings attached.
Sometimes we let things get in the way of letting God fully love us. It could be fear, our past mistakes, or sins that haven’t been brought to the light. Also when I say that you need to love yourself, I’m not referring to the stuck-up, prideful, worldly way of loving oneself. I’m talking about being thankful, and appreciating the person who God has made in you. This type of loving yourself is based upon humility and thankfulness.
My question for myself was, do I really, truly love myself? The answer was no.
Loving myself looked a little bit like this…
Don’t eat that, you’ll gain weight.
Wear this, you’ll look good in it but not that.
I’m so dumb, I screwed that up!
How could I say or do that? I’m an idiot.
Why can’t I look like her/him?
We all have these thoughts, whether you are male or female. We are extremely hard on ourselves…even starting at an early age. If we hear someone else say these things about themselves, we are very quick to say “no thats not true!” Or “you did awesome!” We lift them up and encourage them. So why don’t we do that to ourselves?
This is just a glimpse at how God see YOU and I…
“I praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalms 139:14)
We need to be thankful for how God created us.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1-2)
“God says, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3)
God’s love for you is relentless. It started before you were even created. He even died for you to show His undying love for you.
Won’t you allow His relentless love for you to transform your thoughts about yourself?
I am learning each day to love myself and to let God love me. No, it isn’t easy but oh, it is so worth it!
