Self love

[Guest dove2]

The world has turned upside down from what we once knew it to be. Our grandparents would not believe what is going on today. At least mine would not. You are right about going to college. When I was young that was not important either. Girls only talked about marriage and not careers. That is how we were raised. What we didn't know would fill a book. We were so protected in almost every subject especially any type of grown up talk.

I missed the rebirth part of this. Are you talking about the Christians being born again or the rebirth in a different light. I have not had time to read your entire post. Just mostly glanced over most of it.

[Guest Unworthy Servant]

I send greetings in Christ Jesus, and the love and Peace of His Spirit;

I understand the need to speak out on the concept of self worth. This world in itself has grown to be very self involved. To love ones self is important to the point that we can love another person as much as we do ourselves. How much can we love another person? that also may be the extent of our ability to really love ourselves. This whole concept of self worth is also tied to the idea of our repentance and ability to give God the power and authority in our lives. To be more specific we tend to shotgun our reponses to the idea of what we need to do in our lives to grown in Christ. We have not really gotton down to specific things for our own lives that need to be changed for us to grown in Christ. That is true of repentance as well, and it has a lot to do with self worth in it's final annalisis.

When we come to the idea of what we should do to repent we often look at the whole of this life ands say that we need to die to this world, but in fact God never said that we should die to the parts of this life that can fit into the Kingdom of Heaven, only those things which have their root in sin. It is our nature to look at ourselves and really lie about our condition. For some the only way to love who they are is to make themselves look better in their own eyes, which means to tear someone else down, and that is a sinful nature. With regard to our repentance it is often we who start out lying to ourselves about our own repentance, and what we are actually repenting from. In fact if we get too vague about that repentance it does very little for us because we never settle on a specific thing to be repentant of. It is the same with self worth, because we never can focus on the things that we are allowing God to change within us to make us worthy of Christ.

Our epentance comes from turning away from the things that are repentant of and starting a new and different journey. We don't realize that it is the control issue that is at the very heart of all of our sin, and that is the main area that we need to be repentant of in the beginning. The desire to control was the first sin from Satan and has been the core of the nature of mankinds sin since that time. The out looke that we have of ourselves and our relationship to God is based upon how much we are willing to give the conrtrol of this process over to God's Spirit within us. You see if we can die to the things of this life that causes us to be separated from God we will be successful with repentance, and worthy in His eyes and in our own finally to be a child of God, how much greater self worth can we have than that?

The Power of the Holy Spirit was sent to us to help us in repentance from the carnal nature of sin in our lives so that we can become transformed by the renewing of our mind and heart, and made new and worthy to be a child by adoption into the Kingdom. We can only love as much as God can love, and in the way that God loves. Our self worth then is based upon how much we allow God to do the loving through us to others. That worthyis not based upon our ability to love but our ability to allow God the control to love for us.

May you richly bless God through your life in Him;

The Unworthy Servant