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How to Think About Yourself

God thinks you are wonderful, and it’s important that you learn to think about yourself the same way He does. This verse states that two cannot walk together unless they agree, and we cannot walk with God unless we learn how to agree with Him.

People generally tend to think about all their faults more than they do their strengths, but we need to consider both. We don’t want to ignore our weaknesses and pretend that they don’t exist, but we can become easily discouraged, and perhaps even depressed, if we don’t also consider the good things about us.

The apostle Paul warned us not to think more highly of ourselves than we should (see Romans 12:3), but he didn’t say we are to think “lowly” of ourselves. Think like this: I have talents, gifts and abilities that God has given me, and I am thankful for them. I intend to use them for His glory. I also have weaknesses, but I trust God to show His strength through them. Jesus came for weak people, for those who need Him, and I definitely need Him. I am nothing without Christ, and I can do nothing without Him, but I can also do all things through Him.¹

I can honestly tell you there was a time when I simply didn’t like myself. All I saw were my faults, and I constantly compared myself to others. I so badly wanted to be extra sweet and friendly like my pastor’s wife…or become the perfect homemaker like my next-door neighbor. However, God didn’t create me to be exactly like them—He created me to be me. When I finally learned to love and value myself the way God does, it changed everything!

Life can get difficult when all we see is everything that is wrong with us and the things we can’t seem to do right. Don’t spend too much time thinking about your faults, and don’t compare yourself with other people, thinking you need to be like them. Begin focusing on what God thinks about you and you’ll be a much happier person!

We may not love everything we do, because we all sin and make mistakes, but we can love the person God has created us to be, the one we are always in the process of becoming through Christ.

Make the Mind Connection: How you think about yourself is vitally important to your self-image and affects every area of your life.

Adapted from The Mind Connection by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2015 by Joyce Meyer. Reprinted with permission of FaithWords, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. All rights reserved.