At least nine times in the Bible we find the phrase, "Love others as much as you love yourself."
So how much should we love ourselves? Well, if we are here to love and serve others, it sounds like that love can only be as strong as the love we have for ourselves.
Advertising presents glossy versions of perfect people that make us feel worse about ourselves.
Broken relationships try to tell us that we have somehow failed in love so again we are "demoted" in our worth.
Isn't it an upstream battle to love ourselves? Is there a secret to loving ourselves well?
Maybe the secret is this: decide you are lovable and greatly worth loving. You might not feel that way in the beginning but write a note that you have to read each day that says, I am lovable and greatly worth loving.
As that truth invades your mind each day, it somehow moves you to begin to feed your strength, meaning you make more decisions that strengthen you than weaken you. Over the next three days, we will investigate our input to ourselves through food, words, and reactions. No matter how you slice it, input affects output.
You, reading this now, are lovable and greatly worth loving. I promise you that.
