How do you see yourself? In your mind, do you see a person who is confident or a person who is self-centered and needs to keep boosting his/her self-esteem to be able to survive the human race and this world?
If you need to keep boosting your self-esteem, maybe you have been missing something…something that may have been right in front of you or never was.
Your childhood may have brought some discouragements or accusations of who you are or who you are not and you feel as though you need to prove them wrong because your ego can’t handle them. They have made you feel empty and depressed. Does that ring a bell in your mind and heart? Are you trying to build your ego around the things you accomplish? The human ego was made for God to fill it up, not us — Please keep reading!
Our ego draws attention to how we come across to others, how our body and face looks, etc. If we sense negativity from others, we feel emotional pain. We want to be perfect.
In order to make us feel better about ourselves, we either need to boast to others about our “greatness” or compare ourselves to others in our minds as to how much better we are than they are. Then our self-esteem temporarily goes up a notch in our minds. We are competitive and prideful.
When we’ve come to the place where our ego is so full of us, it can be easily damaged and become smaller. So, we go on a trek to build it up again. Up and down, up and down.
What we want is to be “somebody.” The only way for that to happen is by putting your faith in Jesus. He is the One who came down to earth to die for your sins and their eternal penalties so you can become righteous in God’s sight. When you do this, God sees you as perfect as He looks at you through His Son, Jesus, who provided the WAY to be forgiven of your sins so you can live in Heaven with Him forever and ever.
When you put your faith in Jesus, God considers you His child! Since Jesus/God is the King of Kings, that makes you a child of the King who is also the Creator of the Universe. You see – you can be “somebody.”
You may have respect for earthly kings, but Jesus is the King of those kings. Those kings will die like everyone else. Jesus is Eternal. He died for your sins and then rose again to conquer death for us so we can have Eternal life. He will never die again and neither will you after your earthly death because now you also are Eternal. You have changed from death unto LIFE.
Now, if you change your perspective from earthly to Heavenly things . . . from dwelling on yourself as to who you are in this life, to dwelling on God and who you are because of Jesus, your self-esteem will fill your ego with Jesus. He has changed you. He has given you LIFE through Himself.
Can I get a huge AMEN? This should make us want to praise and honor God/Jesus instead of ourselves. But only IF you first realize you are a sinner and tell Jesus you know that and that you want to repent of the life you’ve been living without Him and then put your faith/trust in Jesus’ shed blood, death on the cross to pay for your sin penalties and His resurrection from the dead.
What’s it going to be for you? You need to choose Jesus! If you don’t, you’ve chosen eternal death in Hell. Why would you do that? If you say that you don’t believe “all this stuff,” that doesn’t mean it’s not true! Let’s say that you don’t believe in gravity and you want to prove it’s not true. So, you jump off a tall building and quickly find out how true it is, and then you die. Your opinion was untrue. Your opinion about Jesus’ salvation for you is untrue, too, and you’ll find out that you’ll die a Spiritual death in Hell.
So, if you don’t believe in what Jesus did for you on the cross by dying for your sins, and that God requires that for Eternal life, you’ll realize that it is true when you die a physical death. You will also experience Spiritual death for all of Eternity. All if this is Biblical Truth!
Are you so entrenched in the things of this world that can give you temporary pleasure and praise that you refuse to focus on forever Heavenly things? Like I said, “You will believe when it’s too late. Please don’t do that. Become a child of the King of Kings today!!! Don’t you want freedom from Spiritual death and Hell?
Jesus said, “I am the WAY and the TRUTH and the LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)
By the way, if you are a true believer in Jesus, you may need to get your eyes off of pleasing yourself and back onto pleasing Jesus again and ask Him how you can serve Him in this life. Sometimes true believers get off track and focus on earthly things that are not healthy for them. They may become addictions. They need to recommit their lives to Christ Jesus.
Please let me know in the comment box if you want to have forgiveness of your sins and perfection through Jesus in God’s eyes. Thank you.
Sharon
*Certain Truths were used from the book, “The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness” by Timothy Keller and also, The Holy Bible.
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