LOVING MYSELF

Do you love the reflection of God in you?

Happy new month guys! I am sorry I didn’t write at all in the month of November, I had things I wanted to share but I just couldn’t articulate my thoughts well so I decided to not write until I was ready and I think I am. Shout out to my sisterhood for inspiring this post. You guys are the real MVPs.

 So a few days ago my friends and I were discussing and I had just shared with them how during worship on Sunday God said to me that he wanted me to reflect on the fruits he had produced in me during the course of this year and also to reflect on the things his still teaching me. And as I shared this with them I expressed how I also wanted them to partake in this assessment so we can share our results with one another, and surprisingly we all had one answer in common and I thought to share my part of that story with you guys. So enjoy!

I honestly thought I was done with this until the lord brought it again to my attention that I wasn’t loving myself. And I first I didn’t quite understand it until he started breaking it down. I realized I haven’t done a good job embracing all the things that makes me, me. Most of which was my personality, the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character. I unknowingly had subtle thoughts of people I wish I was like and when I got to the roots of those thoughts I realized I hadn’t well embraced who God had made me to be and this needed to change.

You see I was indirectly telling my creator that he didn’t do a good job creating me, that if only he had maybe added bits of this different people personalities that I had in mind into me that I would have maybe been more perfect. Maybe I would be more beautiful if I just looked a little like Sarah and was more conservative like Debbie, maybe I would have sounded better if I spoke like Stephen, or maybe people would like me more and I would be more famous if I was as nice as Leah. And while I was indulging in all this thought I was not exploring who God had made me to be.

Genesis 1:26-28 - New Living Translation (NLT)

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created human beings in his own image.
    In the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

Those verses talk about God creating us in his image, the message version says it like this “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature… God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature”.

My understanding of that is that you and I are all carriers of pieces of God’s nature, personalities, characteristics and style. So that particular thing that makes you stands out in the crowd is a reflection of who God is and to think I was once ashamed of that! I need Jesus fam!

I don’t think we will stop being tempted to comparing ourselves to other people but I believe when we come to an understanding of who we really are in Christ those temptations can be easily dealt with when and if they come. When we are standing boldly and firm on Jesus, nothing the world throws at us would move us because we are standing on the rock of ages and I honestly don’t know any other rock that is stronger.

So the next time you feel tempted to compare yourself to someone else, remind yourself that, that person’s character is a reflection of who God is and instead of wishing that was the character God gave to you, admire the reflection of God in them and move on. Desire to find out more of the reflection of God that you are and walk in that.

Until next time, Peace.