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06-26-2008, 09:25 AM
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Message #103
THE QUESTION OF LOVING OURSELVES I had an excellent question from an Inner Roomie about this. She quite reasonably queried whether we really should be LOVING ourselves? I replied: Yes, I understand what you're saying. Obviously we can love ourselves in a bad and sinful way, or we can love ourselves in a more healthy way. That Jesus' 2nd Commandment (Matthew 22:37-40) tells us to love OTHERS as we love ourselves, shows that loving ourselves cannot always be considered bad. And we may correctly love ourselves in the respect of "I have to take PROPER CARE OF MYSELF or likely I will become of NO value to anyone!" Thus I must be "self-concerned" for my well-being. That's a form of love. Also if I were to do the opposite and HATE myself - that would reduce my value to man and God down close to zero probably. It would certainly be a VERY destructive thing! Then consider the depths of God's love for you. He thinks you are the most wonderful of all his creation! He can see all of our beauty and wonder. He sees who we really ARE, as well as who we can really BE. INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!! And if God loves us like that, then how would we DARE not to consider ourselves worthy of love. Finally, I can't sum it up better than from Matthew Henry's Commentary (underlining mine): "It is implied, that we do, and should, love ourselves. There is a self-love which is corrupt, and the root of the greatest sins, and it must be put off and mortified [put to death]: but there is a self-love which is natural, and the rule of the greatest duty, [to take proper care of ourselves, he's saying here] and it must be preserved and sanctified. [ditto] We must love ourselves, that is, we must have a due regard to the dignity of our own natures, [that God created in His image] and a due concern for the welfare of our own souls and bodies." Then He adds this, which is really excellent: "in many cases we must deny ourselves for the good of our neighbour, and must make ourselves servants to the true welfare of others, and be willing to spend and be spent for them, to lay down our lives for the brethren." I have personally learnt how to be spent for others. I say to the Lord to 'please use me and use me up'! I serve others because I serve Jesus as my Master. I see myself as a 'nobody', yet at the same have full respect and love for myself, mostly because I can fully accept who I am, and understand how HE sees me.
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06-26-2008, 03:22 PM
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On the subject of loving yourself:
If you are so down about yourself, that all you can see is your feet, then you cant look up and see God. If you are so down on yourself, believing that you cant do anything, then you will NOT be able to do anything! Knowing who you are in Christ enables you to have confidence that He CAN and WILL work thru you to do His will and purposes. 
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06-26-2008, 06:23 PM
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06-27-2008, 02:46 PM
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Hi,
Bondman has been very ill today, and in bed all day. Hoping for a better day tomorrow. Mrs Bondman
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06-27-2008, 03:29 PM
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You are in my prayers BM!
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06-27-2008, 03:39 PM
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Praying for Mr. Bondman.
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One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. Psalm 27:4 |
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06-27-2008, 04:05 PM
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I cannot lay claim to the above. It was something that the Lord told me after reading Bondman's post. I give Him (God) all the credit and all the glory.
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06-27-2008, 04:06 PM
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Be transparent before God, He sees right thru you, anyway! http://www.likepreciousfaith.org/testimony_val.htm Please pray for your local emergency responders, daily. |
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06-27-2008, 05:21 PM
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Isn't God good to teach us a bit more and bounce things off each other? Amen!
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06-27-2008, 06:07 PM
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amen!
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