If you pay frequent visits to this blog, you should know that UCB's word for today is my favourite devotional. The messages are ever so timely. This is yesterday's which I was supposed to post. The link is also beneath the post in case you want to read more or even subscribe.
Iyanla Vanzant said, ‘Everything that happens to you
is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We can’t…draw to ourselves
more than we think we are worth.’ That means how we see ourselves determines
the kind of relationships we establish. Many of us harbour a low sense of self-esteem.
We deem everyone else as being more important than ourselves and think meeting
their needs is more important than meeting our own needs. We compare ourselves
and allow others to determine who we are, and become dependent on their
approval to prop up our identity.
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But it’s a slap in the face to God to look at
another person and say, ‘I wish I were like them.’ God made you for His own
purpose, that you might reflect a unique aspect of His glory. As believers in
Christ, we’ve been given a new identity as children of God. We weren’t created
to live dependently on any other person. Rather, God is restoring us to the
image of His Son and making us whole (see 2 Corinthians 3:18). In Him we don’t
ever need to be afraid to be who we really are. It’s time to develop a true
opinion of yourself based on the truth that God made you exactly, precisely,
intricately, wondrously, and uniquely you – a one-of-a-kind creation for which
there’s no comparison. The psalmist wrote: ‘You…scheduled each day of my life
before I began to breathe…How precious it is, Lord, to realise that you are
thinking about me constantly!’ (Psalm 139:16-18 TLB).
