Learning to Love Yourself

Learning to Love Yourself 

I won’t lie I struggled with this topic and where to begin my blog post for this because like most men and women in this world I struggled with the true meaning of loving myself. I always thought that if I loved those around me and did what I needed to do to be the perfect wife, daughter, sister, and friend that I would be what would make me feel better about myself and what I was doing with my life. I then realized that did not help me love myself.

So I started to think that loving myself meant that I would get up every morning and focus on my hair and makeup, workout to make myself feel better, and just take care of myself do what I wanted to do to make me happy but I soon learned that it is so much more than that. I was doing everything I could to do things that I thought made me love myself more and made me happy but I was missing one thing in my life and that was the love of my Savior Jesus Christ.

I was missing that fire, that passion that I once had when I was living my life for God. I didn’t realize that this is what I needed because I was trying to do everything on my own and trying to find that instant meaning to life and everything would go back to the way I once felt. I lost my walk with God and this was why I wasn’t comfortable with myself and how my life was turning out. I would only call out to God when something bad happened and I felt like I couldn’t fix it but when everything in my life would go back to “normal” I would forget about God and do what I wanted to do, that was until something bad would happen. I had to take a look at my life and realize that I was lost and was looking for something. God was the answer.

“In the bible it says “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit- fruit that will last- and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.” John 15: 9-17

I won’t say that my life is perfect and that I’m some perfect Christian but I am working on my walk with God in making him my end all be all. Since inviting God back into my life I have learned the true meaning of love and how to love yourself because I have the love of God. That love that can’t be broken because he loved me even when I didn’t have the time for Him.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

God didn't create us to love Him because He said to. He wants us to love him and have that choice to follow him or not. If I could give anyone any advice from my mediocre life is ask God into your heart and give over you life to Him. You will see so many amazing changes and honestly just feel better about life and what the future holds. I pray that everyone reading this has their own personal come to Jesus moment. 😂

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