I'm just going to say it: I love me. Go ahead and say it to yourself a few times. I love me. I
don't know how it will make you feel, but I can guarantee that it won't
make you a liar. Look in the mirror. Not bad, huh? No? Well, whether
you love or hate what you see, chances are you'll keep on looking.
None of us has a problem with low self-esteem. Scripture tells us we
were born with the opposite issue. We all think of ourselves as a little
more pretty, a little more talented, a little more worthy, and a little
more deserving of just about everything in this life. Far from having
naturally broken hearts, our hearts are naturally bloated with the
calories of self-consumption and filled with obscene levels of
self-obsession. We've been taught that there's nothing more valuable
than how much we value ourselves. Sometimes we like to doll it up with
introspective words like self-realization or self-fulfillment, but it's
all the same thing: egos the size of Kanye West performing with Jay Z on
top of the Empire State Building. Yes, our esteem is that extreme.
Depths of Our Souls
The frightening thing about self esteem is the staggering lengths God goes to completely eradicate it from the depths of our souls, in order to produce depth in
our souls. If the Lord loves a humble and contrite heart, it means that
he equally abhors a prideful and defiant one. One of the prevailing
themes of the Bible is how God makes nothing out of men by flipping the
object of their esteem from themselves back to him. These stories play
out like dark, epic, cinematic tragedies. We all hope our story doesn't. Continue at Ronnie Martin
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