INSPIRATION ‘R’ US

Yes, these points are very important in the way that we prove love to ourselves but have you considered finding out what Loving Yourself means to God. Proverbs 19:8 says whoever gets wisdom loves his own soul and he who keeps understanding will discover good. Even the bible says it that to get wisdom is to love yourself; in life, we are faced with challenges that brings us down and make us feel less human or not good enough to be alive. 

For years, i battled with an esteem that put me in a position that i questioned myself, my every move, i needed people to actually comment me or even say the littlest thing just to feel good, i did not love myself enough to be comfortable in my own skin. And at that time in my life, i tried to pour my emotions and love on other people, and therefore, i loved people very wrongly, i fell in love for the many wrong reasons, i was just not good enough in my own eyes and nothing i do no matter how great it seemed was good enough until someone compliments it and even sometimes through the compliments, i see faults and i felt like i was being mocked. Seriously, this phase in my life went on for years, and i was just not a happy moment, it was like i needed a void in my life to be filled, all because i didn't love myself enough to accept who i am. Always trying to compare myself to the next person, or trying to be like them, at a point i wondered why life was rosy for all the people around me but not for me.

The moment i was able to get a grip of my emotions and fall in love with the person that i am, i was able to actually realize that Christ loves for was enough reason to love myself, i was comfortable in my own skin and how was i able to achieve this, i surrendered my will power to God, i stopped trying to figure out why my body shape is as it is, i stopped trying to figure why i have not achieved those things that i wanted to achieve; and i gave it all to God, my reasoning ability, my daily life and all, my love for myself, i surrendered it to God and asked Him to help me to love myself just like He loved me. And it became so easy to see good in me, being me became special, i no longer felt the need to actually compare myself to other people.

And once i was able to love myself the way i should be loved by myself, it was very easy to actually love others for the right reason; my love for others was no longer selfish, i realized that all the time that it took to actually figure out why i wasn't being loved the right was mainly because of the fact that i wasn't loving people the right way. My love was actually choking the receiver of the love. It is very essential to Love yourself so that you can actually love others the right way, the reason is that if you have not learned to actually love yourself, how can you actually learn to love others the right way.