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Feel Good about yourself
“We have this treasure in earthen vessels.”-2 Corinthians 4:7 NKJV
When you don’t feel good about yourself, you live with a sense of insecurity. You keep looking for others for approval, and when you don’t get it your sense of worth shrivels. As a result you can spend your life living far short of your God-given potential. You are the only person you can’t get away from, and until you learn to accept yourself based on the fact that God loves and accepts you as you are, you will always battle insecurity.
Think about the last time you were around somebody, you didn’t particularly enjoy it. How did it feel? Not good, right? Good or bad, we project onto others the thoughts and feelings we have about ourselves. So if you want people to think well of you, you must have a good opinion of yourself-one based on God’s word. Now, the bible cautions about having an overinflated opinion of yourself-but don’t go to the other extreme. Living in continual self-rejection in an open invitation to Satan, whom the bible says is like a roaring lion prowling for someone to devour(see 1 Peter 5:8). You say, “But didn’t Paul write, “Nothing good lives in me, that is in my sinful nature” (Romans 7:18 NLT)? Yes, but that means the good qualities you do possess are evidence that God is at work in your life.
The Bible says, “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. (2 Corinthians 4:7 NKJV). Today, instead of focusing on your flaws and feeling bad, recognise the “treasure” of God’s presence, power and potential that live within.
The article above was published in the Word for Today devotional (May/June/July 1923) Used by permission. Rhemia Media Inc. www.rhemamedia.co.nz A free copy the Word for Today devotional can be obtained at the following address: Freepost Rhema, Rhema Media Inc, 53 Upper Queen Street, Private Bag 92636, Symonds Street, Auckland 1150, New Zealand
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