Messages To Ourselves

We all have images of ourselves. Some days we love ourselves more than others. Some days we just don’t like ourselves. Our hair doesn’t look good, we feel fat, whatever it may be. It might even be that someone has said something bad about us. And instead of forgetting that insult, we dwell on it, and it plays over and over in our heads like a broken record. But that’s not a good thing to do. We need to think first.

Are the messages we are telling ourselves things we would say to someone else? Would you go and tell your best friend that he or she looks fat? Would you go and tell your loved one that they are a screw up? Probably not. Those negative messages we play in our heads or that live in our hearts are not anything that God wants us to think or tell ourselves. He thinks otherwise, and so should we.

There are many, many verses in His word about our value. Not one talks about us being bad, negative, ugly or fat. They talk about us being of high value, more precious then silver, loving. Those messages, the way God sees us are the messages we should be playing in our heads, because those are the only ones that should count.