I am writing a series on love.  This next post is appears to be counter intuitive to love and God.  It is going to be hard to explain so please be patient.  An essential aspect for loving others and loving God is to love yourself.  This is not the attitude most of themselves when we are told that we are sinners and from this are made to feel bad about our self.   We should feel bad but after we repent we should change our opinion about our self.  After all Christ died on the cross for our sins and for us to be overcomers.

What does that love looks like.  We are all afraid to be too self involved or feel like we are enamored with our self.  This makes many people uncomfortable.  We need to see our self the way God sees us.   He loves us even with the sins we perform or sin when we don’t perform the actions that we are supposed to do.  He loves us so much that when we behave badly, He always gives us a solution to get back to the correct path.  Sometimes we feel so badly, we feel we don’t deserve it.  This is our self destructive nature is coming through.  Nothing good is exhibited when one is debasing himself.  We have a God with open arms ready to receive us.

Another reason to love our self is that people tend to judge other people based on our own outlook.  If we feel bad about our self, it makes it hard to feel good about other people.  If we love our self in a correct manner, then it makes it easier to love others.

What does it feel like to love our self in a correct way.  One way is the way we feel after we help another person out.  Another way is what we feel after we come out of an inspiring worship service or a great sermon.  Still another way is that feeling that we have when we think or do things with our good friends or our relatives that we feel close to.  These are examples.  To summarize, we feel good about our self is when we perform action that we were created for no matter how uncomfortable it may feel at the time.

As I said in my other posts on love, I don’t have the whole story.  I don’t know about your relationship with God.  After reading this you might have corrections to what I said or more information to add to what I said.  I never what to come between you and God and that is what is what would happen if this information is some how complete.  You need to enjoy God your self by talking to Him about these issues.  This will show you how much He loves you.