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The Love Principle - Study 17: Who to Love: Yourself

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Psalms 139:13-18 NIVUK 

[13] For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. [15] My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. [17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! [18] Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand – when I awake, I am still with you. 

We travel overseas a few times a year. Europe is close, and relatively cheap for us. We have family in Asia. We are no strangers to the journey to all three airports that can be reached from our house. 


Before we leave, we triple check we gave everything: tickets, hotel bookings, travel insurance documentation, money and passport. Of course, our passports! When you're going to be visiting another country, how else do you expect to get across the border?  


But you would be amazed at the number of times I've heard of people reaching the airport, heading to the Departures area, and then realising that their passport is back at home – or worse, sitting in the safe in the hotel room from which they have just checked out. 


I’m also amazed at the people who bring a damaged passport to the airport and are scandalised when they are refused travel. It’s an official document. It allows us to see the world God created. Why would you not take care of it? 


We have been discussing the two commands and three latitudes of Mathew 22:37-40 as if these were our passport to obedience and discipleship. And they are. Without them, obedience and discipleship are simply impossible. 


But over the decades, we have neglected a crucial part of these commands. It’s almost as if we have arrived at an Immigration post, taken out our passports and realised that we have cut out the photograph page and left it at home. 


Because this much neglected part of the command to love the Lord our God and our neighbours as ourselves is love for ourselves. 


That might sound quite strange. After all, our idea of someone who loved themselves is some kind if entitled, posing, preening big-head who prances all over the place, demanding people they them attention because their life feels empty if they are not in the heat of the spotlight or at the top of the pile. 


But actually, these are people who don’t love themselves. They bask in the opinion of their adoring fans because their ego needs their fans to adore them. They are incapable of looking after themselves and need others to do it for them. They are often the most lonely, the most fragile people in the world because other people’s opinion of them is like a scaffold holding them upright: take it away from them and it crumbles. 


But someone who really, truly loves themselves understands that 1 Corinthians 13 is not just about the love we should have for each other or for God, but it’s also about the love we have for ourselves. People who love themselves are comfortable in their own skin because they accept themselves for who they are. They are at peace with themselves. When they mess up, they are not hard on themselves but forgive themselves. 


This makes them able to extend that love to other people. 


Because they love themselves, they take care of themselves. They do not push themselves to breaking point. They understand their own limits. 


This makes them more understanding of other people 


They do not need external acclaim or appreciation or affirmation. They know who they are. They know what they have done. They know God loves them regardless, so they love themselves too. 


And they are able to extend this love to other people. 


Learning to love yourself will help you battle a myriad of psychological and spiritual issues that may plague you. But it might take time. 


It’s taken me years. 


This is a very important concept to understand. Let’s take our time, then, to grapple with What The World Thinks of you. 

 

What The World Thinks 

John 10:11-13 NIVUK 

[11]  ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. [12] The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. [13] The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 

It was while doing some project for an office reshuffle that I first came across three letters that, when placed together, formed something I slowly came to loathe: 


FTE. 


It stands for Full Time Employee. 


It’s the horribly dehumanising term for workers used to measure how many people they need to carry out a task. If they no longer need the same number of people due to improvements or automation or AI, then they simply make them redundant. They let them go. They can them. 


I know all about that. Analysis in that company led to me losing my job. 


You can imagine how I reacted when I went from there to work in an HR department and they used the same dehumanising terminology. 


You see, that’s it. For those in power in our companies, we are not people with hopes and dreams. We do not represent families with children. We have no hopes or dreams. 

We are numbers on a spreadsheet. We are line items on a payroll. 


We are like coal seams or oil wells or places with a nice view. We are little more than a resource to be exploited. And when we are done, when there is nothing left to squeeze out of us, then we are simply chucked on the scrap heap and left to rot. 


There are few who would disagree that this is how the corporate world treats us. 


But let me tell you, recently we have begun to treat each other this way. People are objects to be objectified. Our approach to relationships is utilitarian. We use these people because of what they can give us: their beauty, their ability, their identity documents. They are a coal seam we mine, an oil well we drill, a beautiful view we commercialise and exploit. 


We seek them out to get what we want out of them. 


But when we don’t want them any more, when they can’t give us when we want anymore, when they are past their use by date, we discard them like trash. 


This perspective explains the days of corporate drudgery for entities that care little for us, and the nights spent chasing meaningless, heartless one night stands with people who care even less for us. 


According to the world, you are nothing than a means to an end. 


Let me tell you, it is terrible when this same attitude emerges in the church: where relationships are built and fellowships formed purely for convenience and not for love. 


These are purely transactional relationships. There is no affection there. There is no love.


All this starts to change our view of ourselves. 


We feel good about ourselves when we are useful and contributing to society; we feel bad about ourselves when cannot. We feel good about ourselves when someone else thinks we are useful to them; we feel bad when we are not. 


This thinking manifests itself so obviously, so strikingly in our word. 


We see it in rampant and shocking materialism. 


We see it in the merciless focus on superficial appearance instead of character. 


We see it in a desperation to find our place in the world through ever more outlandish stunts and social media posts. 


We see it in the attention-seeking self-abuse of freakish piercings and tattoos and changes to appearance. 


We see it in the desperate desire to be part of a community, no matter the cost. 


And when we feel like we are a failure, when we feel like we have nothing to contribute, or that society doesn’t want what we have, we see it in the decline into substance abuse and addiction and despair. 


This all comes from seeking love and affirmation from a culture that does not know love because it does not know God. 


And the damage this does to us is incalculable and utterly heart-breaking. 


Look again carefully at what Jesus said. 


John 10:12-13 NIVUK 

[12] The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. [13] The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 

In His day, sheep were often cared for by the shepherd who owned them. However, they were also taken care of by a man who was paid by the owners to do so. What happened was that people from a small village, who may own just a few sheep, would pool their sheep into a larger flock and then pay for a shepherd to take care of the sheep. 


However, this hired shepherd already had his hire money. He had no motivation to face danger when wild animals attacked the flock. So when they came, he would just run away and let the flock be attacked. 


Jesus’ point is that people who gain financially from us, for whom we are nothing more than a means to an end, do not care for us at all. So when trouble comes, or when someone better is around, we will be abandoned. That is now it is. 


But He is not like that at all. He gave His life for us. 


Many of us have felt this sting of abandonment. We know how it feels to be kicked to the kerb because someone believes that they can do without us. 


It hurts. It really hurts. 


I want you to see here that this is how the world sees you. So why on earth would you entrust yourself to them? Why would you treat others this way? 


Why would you think this of yourself?  


You are worth way more than this! 


Having seen what the world thinks of us – and to be honest, it kind of stinks – let’s see What God Thinks of You. 

 

What God Thinks of You 

Psalms 139:13-16 NIVUK 

[13] For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. [15] My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 

Many of us reading this study will have a passport or an identity card that contains some details about us: our name, our date and place of birth, our nationality. These are all important. They tell people who need to know who we are. 


But here’s the big question: if that document also contained who you thought you were, what would it contain? Really? Hope about ‘self-righteous hypocritical sinner’, ‘colossal failure’, ‘serially single’, ‘lost and confused’. 


Do any of these ring a bell? 


But what would it say if it contained who God says you are? 


Well, that is an entirely different matter. 


Let me start with one in particular aspect that is terrifically important: you are God’s craftsmanship. 


You are not a cosmic accident. You are not a factory failure. You are not a mistake. 


Your parents may say that about you. That just means they didn’t intend to have you, but by God’s good grace they did. 


What this Psalm, and the words spoken at the very creation of the human race (Genesis 1:27) say is that you were deliberately and artistically created by a loving God.  


He made you who you are. 


They sometimes say about people who excel in their field that ‘When God made them, He broke the mould’. But there was no mould! 


Look again at how God created mankind, and look at it carefully: 


Genesis 1:26-27 NIVUK 

[26] Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’ [27] So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 

Genesis 2:7 NIVUK 

[7] Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/113/gen.2.7.NIVUK)


This is truly an astonishing thing to see. 


For the rest of creation, God simply spoke the word and they appeared. But when it came to mankind, He made us and He formed us. He got personally and directly involved in our creation. He got His hands dirty, so to speak. 


And the really special thing about this? The Hebrew word used here is a similar word that would be used of a potter forming the clay on a wheel. That is a deliberate and skilful act of artistic expression. The things they make are hand-crafted. They are intricate. They are valuable. 


That is how God made mankind.  


That is how God made you. 


Now, I have been in shops that sell pottery. I saw objects there that were deeply impressive. I greatly valued the skill and ability involved. 


But they weren’t to my taste. I would not buy them and take them home.  


Do you see my point? Whether other people think you are worth it or not makes not one jot of difference. The fact that God made you with intention and skill and artistic expression makes you valuable, regardless of their opinion. 


Apart from the fact that we are God’s craftsmanship, we also see that we are God’s partnership. 


Take a look at this verse:

 

Philippians 2:12-13 NIVUK 

[12] Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, [13] for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil his good purpose. 

This is truly extraordinary. 


There are influencers on the internet every day, boasting about how they have a partnership with this organisation or that company or this hotel or that airline. 


We can go one better. We have a partnership with Almighty God, and His partnership is not for some grand project or to promote His brand. 


No, it’s for our best interests, to help us to become more like His Son Jesus Christ. 


I am sure there are many times when you find yourself looking at the mirror after some failing or sin or other, despairing at your weaknesses and flaws, and admitting that you are far from the finished article. 


That’s correct. You're not. There is no shame in admitting it, because none of us are. 


But God’s partnership with is not some vain attempt. It is not some Divine folly. He will achieve His purpose. We will be changed to accurately reflect His image. 


One day we will be changed into the likeness of His Son. We will be like Him. The Bible assures us of that: 


Romans 8:28-30 NIVUK 

[28] And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. [29] For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. [30] And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. 

1 John 3:1-3 NIVUK 

[1] See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. [2] Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. [3] All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. 

And God is right there, standing with us every day, helping is to change and to carry out His commands: 


Ephesians 4:22-24 NIVUK 

[22] You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; [23] to be made new in the attitude of your minds; [24] and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 

So, friends, even when our shortcomings appear to be longer than our long-comings, and we are overcome with the weight of our sin, there is still hope. We can confess it, repent of it and submit to Christ’s partnership with us. 


And then we go again. 


Apart from God’s workmanship and partnership, we also enjoy God’s fellowship. 


1 John 1:3 NIVUK 

[3] We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/113/1jn.1.3.NIVUK)


There are often times, particularly when we were young, when we determined our value and our self-esteem by the people who were willing to spend time with us. So, for example, if we or our parents threw a party, the people who turned up for it would determine where we stood on the social ladder in school. 


Which for me was never pretty high. 


There have been multiple cases in the news when children with disabilities have thrown a party and not one person has turned up. Yet – and this ought to blow our minds – this verse says that Almighty God Himself wants to spend time with us. 


More than that, we read this of Jesus:  


John 1:14 NIVUK 

[14] The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/113/jhn.1.14.NIVUK)


Or, as The Message rather poetically puts it: 


John 1:14 MSG 

[14] The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood.  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/97/jhn.1.14.MSG)


This God wants to move into your neighbourhood. He wants to move into your life. 


Why? 


Because you are there. 


Almighty God wants to spend time with you and for you to spend time with Him. 


As well as workmanship, partnership and fellowship, we also enjoy God’s guardianship.

 

1 John 3:1 NIVUK 

[1] See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!  

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/113/1jn.3.1.NIVUK)


John 1:12-13 NIVUK 

[12] Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God – [13] children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. 

I am profoundly grateful to God that I was brought up in a family who loved me and did their very best for me, even if it really wasn’t easy. Around me in the neighbourhood where we lived, I saw the awful signs of what happened when children were neglected and left to their own devices. My heart goes out to those whose parents treated them like nothing more than a fashion accessory or a pension plan or some form of misplaced proof of their own virility.  


It is truly heart-breaking to see the psychological burden of whose who are raised as if they were nothing more than a mistake. Or worse, were abandoned in the social care system by broken people who took reckless decisions without considering the consequences. 


Here, in these previous verses, we see the healing balm to all that pain. We are not an accident or an asset or a means to an end. 


Instead, we are children of God: not born because either the mother or the father wanted us, but born of the Spirit, and deliberately and consciously chosen by God to be adopted into His household (Galatians 4:1-7). 


So you might feel unwanted, unloved or abandoned. You might feel unwanted by your parents or made to feel like the black sheep of your family by your peers. 


But God loves you. And because He loves you, He has adopted you into His family. You are His child. 


Nothing matters more than that. 


Nothing can take it away from you. 


So we have seen, then, that we are God’s craftsmanship, and we enjoy partnership and fellowship with Him, as well as His guardianship as our Father. 


All of this, then, leads us to His ownership. 


The value of an object is how much you are prepared to pay for it. That's why those TV shows when people look for valuable items in attics or yard or car boot sales and then try to auction them off are so engaging.  


Often we feel like one of those objects: disregarded, discarded, ignored. Waiting on someone to find our true value. Despairing that they don’t. 


If that is how you feel about yourself, I hear you. 


But the price God paid for us puts any such thought in the shade: 


Romans 3:22-24 NIVUK 

[22] This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, [23] for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, [24] and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  

Colossians 1:13-14 NIVUK 

[13] For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, [14] in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 

1 Peter 1:18-19 NIVUK 

[18] For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, [19] but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.  

God sent His only Son to die for us on the cross to pay the price of our sins because He loves us. No-one else on this earth would place as high a price tag on us. No-one else would value us this highly. 


But God did. 


So the next time you feel you are worthless and not up to much, I want you to cast your eyes on the cross and see something so striking, so clear, so obvious: 


God disagrees. 


It’s not nice to know what the world thinks of us, but it is the truth, whether we like it or not.


When we read what God thinks of us, our hearts soar with joy. It is a stunningly beautiful thing. 


But why is it important? What relevance has it? 


These questions are why we will now look at Why It Matters. 

 

Why it Matters 

Romans 13:8-10 NIVUK 

[8] Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. [9] The commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ [10] Love does no harm to a neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the law. 

Now we are getting into a truth taught by the Bible, but rarely taught by preachers. And it should be, because not only is it very true, it is also very relevant. 


It all stems from a tiny, two-letter word: the word ‘as’. 


The implication of this word is that we should love our neighbours as if they were us. That is: 


Matthew 7:12 NIVUK 

[12] So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 

(Read the full passage at: https://bible.com/bible/113/mat.7.12.NIVUK)


But – and here’s where things get interesting – our modern culture teaches us not to like ourselves, because if we love ourselves and take care of ourselves, we are less likely to buy what they are selling. They would much rather keep us feeling inadequate so they can sell us something to help us feel less inadequate. 


But if we understand our value – the value given to us by God – then we will love and take care of ourselves, and do the same to others. 


Let me give you an example. A few months ago, I was doing the vacuuming when I accidentally sucked up one of my wife’s necklaces. It had been on the bottom shelf of her night stand, close to floor level, and our vacuum cleaner is quite powerful. 


I realised what I had done and right away ran downstairs to our kitchen with the vacuum cleaner. I then opened it up and searched inside the vacuum cleaner bag until I found the necklace. It was easy to find. A necklace looks nothing like dust and grime, and it certainly doesn’t belong with them. 


I retrieved it, cleaned it up, put it back on her nightstand, and then asked her why she would put such a precious thing on a ground level shelf. 


Because that’s the point: we don’t treat valuable things as if they have no value. We take care of them. We look after them. 


We certainly don’t throw them out and dispose of them as if they were nothing. 


This is how you see if someone truly loves and values themselves: do they look after themselves? 


Do they make sure they give themselves adequate rest and food?  


Do they take time to step away from the stresses of life and take care of their own mental health? 


Do they understand their emotions and allow themselves time to process bad events or to enjoy good ones? 


Are they charitable and kind to themselves? Or are they unbearably harsh? 


This is very important because God commanded us to love others as we love ourselves. We will be unable to love others until we have learned to love ourselves. The two are interlinked: one cannot flourish without the other. 


I am telling you as someone who struggled with this for many years: if you don’t learn to accept, to love and to care for yourself as you are, then you will never be able to accept, love and care for others as they are.


Your relationships with others will suffer because you are unable to have a relationship with yourself. 


Consider this: in that wonderful chapter of 1 Corinthians 13, we read these words: 


1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NIVUK 

[4] Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. [5] It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. [6] Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. [7] It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

Paul doesn’t qualify this in terms of its direction. He doesn’t say ‘Love for other people is patient...’. He said ‘Love is patient...’ 


There is a reason for that. This is the love we should show to our neighbours, to God and to ourselves. 


Think about it: if you see someone who is hard on themselves, down on themselves, who drives themselves to exhaustion, who does not care for themselves by making sure they eat healthily and adequately, would you employ them as a carer for a loved one? 


Of course not! Because they would exhibit that same negative behaviour towards other people. 


And that is the point. If we are to love our neighbours as ourselves, we must learn to love ourselves. 


Honestly, I became a Christian while still a young child living in a hostile neighbourhood. I struggled with this for years. I kept comparing myself with other people. I kept feeling bad about the things I couldn’t do, rather than being glad about the things I could do. 


I struggled because I did not realise that Jesus is calling us to love ourselves for who we are, refracting His love for us by taking care of ourselves, and then refracting that love out to others.  


If we learn to do this, then the quality and substance of all our relationships will increase, and we will be all the better for it. 

 

Conclusion  

Psalms 139:13-18 NIVUK 

[13] For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. [15] My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. [17] How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! [18] Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand – when I awake, I am still with you. 

In 2002, a farmer Rudham, Norfolk, UK was ploughing his field when his plough hit something metallic. He jumped out and examined the object. It seemed to be interesting, but not of great value, so he took it home and used it as a doorstop. 


Until in 2013 he decided to get it valued. And then, to his surprise, he realised he had stumbled across a very rare prehistoric dagger worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. 


If we discover that something is valuable and important, we treat it with care. We don’t abuse it or throw it around like it’s meaningless.  


Right there we see our problem. We live in a world that measures value in all kinds of twisted and immoral ways, and then tells us that we have no value unless we meet their unrealistic standards. This leads to people going to incredible extremes to get attention or money or fame, just because they want to be people of value. 


It also leads to others embarking on downright destructive relationships, or transactional relationships that are all about the ‘bottom line’ and not about love. 


They have no respect for others because they have no respect for themselves. 


These are empty, hollow relationships that leave us broken and alone. 


They happen because of what the world thinks: that ultimately our value is the value we produce for one another, and therefore if we can no longer produce that value, then we have no value. 


God disagrees. He loves us. He sent His Son to save us. Yes, He sees us as we are. Yes, He still sees us as sinners. But He loves us all the same, and showed the value He places on us by paying the highest price to save us: 


Romans 5:6-8 NIVUK 

[6] You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. [7] Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. [8] But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

Many months ago, on a cold day, I was walking past a store when a group of young people passed me in one direction, and an old lady in the other. One of the young people – a teenage girl – was dressed very provocatively, bordering on indecently. 


The old woman wandered through the group of young people, walked over to the young women and said to her, ‘I just want to ask you to please, cover yourself up. You’re much to precious to give yourself away like this.’ 


And then she continued on her way. 


That encounter had remained with me for years. What a beautiful thing to say! 


That old woman said something so profound and so accurate. We put ourselves in dangerous relationships, we take unnecessary risks, we get attention-grabbing piercings and tattoos or surgeries and procedures because (if we are brutally honest) we don’t like who we are and what we look like, and we want to be someone else. 


While trying to be someone else, we are not ourselves. Every relationship we have suffers, because we don’t love ourselves and are incapable of loving someone else. 


Friends, here is the answer: God loves you as you are. He sent His Son to die for you as you are. He places incredible value on you as you are. 


Not as you might be, as you are right now. 


Maybe it’s time we stopped listening to the heartless salespeople who flog us someone else’s life, and start listening to the God who made us. 


Because when we do, everything changes. 

 

Prayer 

Lord Jesus, I am stunned by the profundity and depth of this message. I have to admit that many of my problems, including in relationships, are because I don’t like myself very much. Help me to see myself as You see me: as Your craftsmanship, Your child, and someone whom You loved so much that You died for me. Amen. 

 

Questions for Contemplation 

  • Why can’t we love our neighbours if we don’t love ourselves? 

  • What is the best way to learn to love ourselves? 

  • If you were to really love yourself, what would change? 

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