What is your assessment of yourself? How do you view your actions, behavior, attitude? Do you compare yourself to others? Do you compare yourself with the commands of God? Is your assessment low? Is your assessment high? Have you given thanks to God?
We make assessments of ourselves quite often, whether we realize it or not. We compare ourselves to others. We revisit and assess our actions, behavior, and attitude, comparing them to how we think we should act or how others acted.
Our self-esteem is built as much by how we view ourselves as to how others view us. Our own assessment, many times influenced by others, determines what we think of ourselves. We hear all manner of messages about the power of positive thinking and how we are to ignore the negative comments by others. Though those may help us, there is a more powerful way of thinking that can have a far greater impact.
When we compare ourselves to God’s commands and realize how far short we fall, we can be downtrodden and depressed. Yet, our thinking can be turned to positive with one more quick thought and action—giving thanks to God through Jesus Christ.
God demonstrated his love for us by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, to be our Savior. Jesus loves us so much that He died for us. Yes, we fall short. No, we will never be perfect on our own. But through Jesus we are perfected in the sight of God. Through Him we can feel the love of God. Through Him we can have a positive outlook on life. The reason most don’t is they don’t really know Jesus…they simply know of Him. For a real positive outlook on life, we must get to know Jesus intimately.
I pray we all recognize who we are. I pray we know that God loves us. I pray each one of us will seek to know Jesus intimately and see our attitude become a positive one. See yourself for who you are. Know that you fall short. Know that God loves you. Be thankful for Jesus. Be set free in Him.
Romans 7:24:25a Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
Marty Pressey 