by Senior Pastor Francis
Countless arrows of harsh criticisms fired at you may have played its part. And wrong religious beliefs in a harsh and vengeful God who could never be pleased may have made the final straw that finally crippled you and prevented you from loving yourself enough.
Love your neighbours as you love yourself. God spoke with the presumption that you already know how to love yourself. But how about for people who do not even know how to love themselves? Did God ever tell them not to learn to love themselves? What happens when you don’t love yourself enough?
When you don’t love yourself enough:
At first glance, it might seem that this lack of love for isn’t so harmful in our relationship with others. But how could we even have a basis for loving other people when we can’t even love ourselves? By which standards are we going to treat them when we can’t even treat ourselves well? When we don’t love ourselves enough, we also lose the capacity to love other people.
Following are some more of the consequences of not loving ourselves enough:
It isn’t a sin to love yourself. God loves you, and if it’s an evil thing to love someone such as you are, why is it that God continues to love you still?
What’s wrong is when we love ourselves above our neighbours, not caring if we hurt others just so we could get what we want. We also go wrong when we love ourselves or our neighbours above God, for only God could make us fully happy, and it is from Him where all love comes from. God is Love Himself.
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