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SELF ESTEEM

Gary Zukav has been sharing his spiritual insights with Oprah since the fall of 1998. In a recent episode, he responded to the following question: “How does one heal the inner feelings of worthlessness and low self-esteem?” by saying, “This is the core issue of the human experience. Low self-esteem or lack of self-worth is not merely a psychological or sociological problem. It is the circumstance with which all humans struggle.”

—http://oprah.oxygen.com/rys/gary/rys_gary_main.jhtml, Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Dave Bootsma

But why is it that everyone feels this way about themselves? Why is it that we feel like we are somehow supposed to be better than we are or that we are better than we think we are? Why do we need others to affirm us; to convince us that we are OK? Doesn't this suggest that we are not OK? The Bible tells us that we are not OK because of our sin separates us from God.

1 John 1:10 NLT “If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.”

SELF ESTEEM

Emile Ratelband asked a court in Arnhem to shift his birth date from March 11, 1949, to March 11, 1969, saying that if people can change their gender, “why can’t I decide my own age?” Ratelband, A Dutch “positivity guru” is seeking to change his age from 69 to 49, arguing that he feels far younger than his years. “I have the body and mind of a “young god,” he says, believing 20 fewer years will help him find love on dating apps.

The Week, November 23, 2018 p. 12

https://theweek.com/print/406689/79651/read-tabloids

At different times in a lifetime we realize that we may not be like everyone else. There may be something about you I like better, or something about me I like worse. But you and I were both made in God’s image, he knew us, he loved us, and we can be satisfied with who we are. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

Jeremiah 31:3 (CSB) “the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you.”

SELF ESTEEM

Sometimes when we look around at others, we get the idea that everybody else is better off, and have a better life that we do. Social media exaggerates this feeling as we see the people with their perfect families, beautiful homes, and fantastic jobs they post online. “But the truth is,” says Joshua Becker on his blog, becomingminimalist.com, “nobody is as successful as Instagram makes them look, nobody is as beautiful as filters make them seem, nobody is as disciplined as their writing describes them, and nobody is as put together as their social media portrays.”

https://www.becomingminimalist.com/nonperfect/

It is too easy to get frustrated with our own life when we place others on a pedestal assuming they’ve got everything figured out. We need to remember that before God, we are all in the same condition. — Jim Wilson and Rodger Russell

Romans 3:10–12 (CSB)

as it is written:

There is no one righteous, not even one.

There is no one who understands;

there is no one who seeks God.

All have turned away;

all alike have become worthless.

There is no one who does what is good,

not even one.