Self Image and Self Value

Many of us have spent our life trying to be someone we are not. Our complex issues that stems from unhealthy and unrighteous self image only creates desperation in us that may lead us to doing things with ourselves that are totally against God and our own wellbeing.

Maybe we have difficulty accepting our personality, our appearance, our handicap, or even our talents.

Perhaps we spend our energy and time trying to be what other people want us to be because we feel that who we are is not enough.

We may do all we can to separate from our inner being because we are so deeply ashamed of who we are.

Self-hatred is a defect of character that needs to be removed. It breeds the sin of covetousness—that is, longing to be in someone else’s situation or have what they have.

The psalmist wrote, “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14).

Saying we are God’s “workmanship” means that we are unique and beautiful masterpieces—works of divine poetry.

Beauty and value are designed into the very fiber of our being by virtue of our Creator.

One important step in the self image and self Value healthy process is to allow God to remove our self-hatred, helping us to value ourself for who we are.

We have been miraculously created, and we are treasured by God. This has been true since the time we were in our mother’s womb, long before we could do anything to earn it!

As we begin to see how unique and special we are—embraced and accepted by God himself—our strides toward self actualization should grow faster and longer.

Remember, you are the best of God and you are valued by Him as has been demonstrated by the price God paid for your life. Accept your strengths , improve on your weaknesses, and never stop loving you. For that you owe to yourself.

Shalom.