We all know that what we think about ourselves is extremely important just look at someone who thinks they aren’t worth anything or they view themselves of having no value whatsoever and that kind of thinking will lead to all kinds of different behavioural problems but it stems from wrong thinking.
I have at different times in my life thought about myself in a very negative way, and all i had was an image that there was something always wrong with me, i was a lot of the time in a state of repair, needing to fix something wrong with me and i could never seem to shake it off.
But yet i knew on the inside that i was better than what i thought about myself and although i was carrying around on the inside the wrong image about me i wasn’t the kind of person to sit down and feel sorry for myself, i knew there must be an answer.
I went down the self improvement route, get myself a goal something to head for, to give me some motivation and inspiration to make my life better than what it currently was. So off i went, making a list of things i wanted in my life and i’d made up my mind no one was going to stop me or get in my way, i was focused.
I thought that having a goal and achieving it, would give me a sense of self worth and make me feel better about me, and i did achieve a few things like starting my own business and it gave me a temporary lift and i would get all excited that i’m starting
something new, but after a while i was becoming more and more worn out because i had so many things on my to-do list that i hardly ever had a break from my routine especially mentally.
I then began turning into someone i didn’t like so it didn’t matter now what i achieved or not, there was no satisfaction in what i was doing, and when you don’t have any happiness in the work you do, life becomes very hard, and more importantly, you start to
become very hard on yourself.
Changing Your Opinion Of You
What i needed was a different way of looking at myself, too often i was making a decision about me based upon how well i was achieving and made a decision based upon that wrong criteria.
But when i began to see what the Scriptures say about me then things started to change for the better, because it wasn’t based upon what i could do, but what God has already done for me which brought to me a completely different concept and image of me than what i had before.
The change begins when you start to look at yourself from what is revealed in the Scriptures and this is where we now get a new opinion of us because we now know what God thinks about us and this is what starts to change our old mindset or view of how
we used to see ourselves into the view that we are now a Son of God.
When we start to discover this new information it is so liberating because this kind of knowledge has been available to each and every one of us but not knowing about it because we have been distracted or diverted into another way of thinking instead of
focusing on who we really are. One reason for this is because we become so busy that we end up disappearing from our own lives and lose our real identity of why we are here and the purpose for our lives.
I talk a lot more about this in my course, ‘What’s The Rush’ on the courses page.
It’s so important to slow down and take the time to find out what God’s opinion is about me and you, if we don’t we will end up with a completely different opinion of ourselves which is the wrong one, and then struggle to understand what our life is all about.God has now given us a new status, position and identity all because we now believe what Jesus has done on our behalf.
No more having to work or achieve anything this status is a free gift and what i like is that it brings such a peace with this knowledge as well.
I was once looking for peace and acceptance in all the wrong places, but after finding out what God has done for me, the peace we want is located right on the inside of us, no need to look or search anywhere else.