Learning to Love Yourself

Self esteem is such a huge issue, for boys and girls alike. We are constantly looking to other people to build us up. The more people that like us, think we're attractive, or think we are good people the better we feel about ourselves. We look to relationships as a sign of worthiness. You can sit here and read this and say that this is not true for you, but you are either confused or just lying or got it together a lot more than I do. It is natural to look to other people to determine your own self worth. For me, this is one of my biggest struggles. I look to people to build me up, because on my own I do not feel good about myself. There is always someone better or better looking. This is a real challenge for me, a very personal part of my life that I may regret blogging about later.


I wish more than anything that I could find my self worth in Jesus Christ and who He says I am. I believe with my whole heart I will never be satisfied until I learn to love myself like my Creator loves me. I truly believe that but applying it to my life and making it a reality is one of the hardest things I have ever tried to do. I wish I could write this blog and tell you here is how I perfected my self esteem and here is how you can do it too but I can't do that yet. Maybe the sole purpose of this blog is so that we can look back on this someday and see where God has brought me from.


No one is perfect. We all know that we can see it everyday in everything we do. We all have struggles that seem to almost completely overcome us, this is mine. Self esteem is my struggle but I know God can bring me out of this. He has a plan for me that I cannot fulfill until I get this taken care of. 


Challenge of the Day:
Address your struggle. Get real about it. God knows your struggle and somewhere inside you do too. Admit your struggle(s) to God and ask Him to take care of them. Whether your struggle is self esteem like me, or a substance addiction, or maybe you struggle with pornography, we all have struggles its okay to admit them to God. He wants to help you. He wants to be the one who delivers you from the heartache. Let Him. See what He can do with your life when you let Him take over. This is a challenge for me as well as you. We'll do it together and I will blog about my progress.


Here are some scriptures for anyone struggling with self esteem or self worth:

Psalm 139:13-14

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

1 Peter 3:3-4

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Song of Solomon 4:7 

You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Love in Christ

Until Later Bloggers,

Court