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COL Mikel Burroughs good read/share: for the Colonel's Motivational Quotes of the Day. Where the mighty American Bald Eagles roam in the mighty MOUNTAINS OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO AMONG THIER EAGLES-NEST. I know the view must be MAGNIFICIENT on this day September 2, 2019 as you might glance upon the mighty snow capped mountains headed into the month of October. As you know I would respond a lot throughout the week, but I am full-time DOD employee doing contracts for the Defense Contracting Management Agency. It is good to have sometime during a hard earned well deserved Labor Day.

Today's theme is: "You are Enough Day!" Roger that, enduring JOY AND PAIN why not enjoy the fruition of life starting with your accomplishments.

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Good Labor Day my RP Family. As most of us celebrate a holiday, remember there are still those at work to provide services to us who are relaxing at home or enjoying an outing to commemorate Labor Day. Thankful that as of late there are many more jobs available for those who were unemployed.
I have always, it seems, thought that I was enough, even tho some did not show that they thought so. I seemed to have struggled to get my parents to think I was enough, but I have come to learn that they apparently did not think they were enough, to be able to express outwardly their love for me. Through all that I always knew that God thought I was enough and that has been what got me through. That being said, I have submitted the following about loving yourself. I hope y’all enjoy and are blessed by it.f

Taken from desiringgod.org
Do You Love Yourself Enough?
Article by James Beevers
Guest Contributor
The room full of five hundred teens broke into applause. The speaker smiled and began to pack up his sermon notes, took his Bible, and walked off the stage as the worship team climbed the steps.

As a thirteen-year-old, I sat in the auditorium of a youth camp with mixed feelings. The speaker had just given an impassioned speech from Matthew 22:39 about the vitality of self-love and acceptance for our spiritual lives. “You can only love God and your neighbor as much as you accept and love yourself!” he said.

I knew something wasn’t quite right, but I didn’t know what. In the years since then, through studying the Bible, I’ve come to understand my misgivings better. I believe the popular teaching of self-love falls short in key ways. The promise, put simply, is that the more you look inwardly and love yourself, the more you can love others and be at peace and content.

One self-love article put it like this: “We treat others in the same way we treat ourselves. And if I am uncertain about my worth, I will be uncertain about the worth of others.” A lack of self-love is seen as the root of all sorts of issues ranging from depression to bullying to obesity.

But as appealing as the idea of self-love may sound, I believe there are key ways in which this teaching falls short of the biblical alternative.

What Is “Self-Love”?

First, let’s begin with definitions. This is especially vital when dealing with extremely ambiguous concepts such as self-love, which everyone tends to define individually. The “self-love” I am writing about is that which I have most frequently encountered in society, Hollywood, among friends, and even in the church, both in Western Europe (where I am currently living) and in the United States.

Self-love is an introspective prioritization of self, aiming at a deeper love and acceptance of self. It is a meditative focus on one’s own positive traits. Self-love seeks freedom from negative thoughts about oneself — whether guilt or insecurity or even awkwardness. It is seen as the key to the love of others and the love of God, because as long as there is any discontent with self, we are unable to devote ourselves to these.

1. Self-love is unsatisfying.

The first problem with looking inward for love of self is that we’re sinners. When sinners look inward with clear eyes, we don’t like what we see — at least we shouldn’t. We can see sin in all aspects of our lives. We see that we are deeply flawed. Self-love philosophy promises that if you look inward and can find a way to love what you see, you will find peace. But due to our massive shortcomings, we cannot find satisfaction in ourselves.

The philosophy of self-love is based on the idea that humans are fundamentally good and lovable. When self-love doesn’t work and we are dissatisfied, we might attribute this to our own blindness. “We just can’t see how beautiful we really are!” But Scripture and personal experience both show that without looking beyond ourselves to Christ, there is very little to love.

Active striving for the love of self leaves us dissatisfied and usually fails. In my experience, there is even a correlation between depression and reliance on self-love. Self-love is one of our highest forms of self-deception: we gorge ourselves on the biblical truth of our human worth — being created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26) — but refuse to swallow the balancing truth that our own sin has robbed us of loveliness. Self-love is fundamentally unsatisfactory and lacking, because we are somehow expected to ignore half of who we are as sinful humans.

2. God doesn’t want you to accept your sins.

An unbiblical view of self-love not only leaves you unsatisfied; it can leave you unsanctified. If we dismiss the convictions of conscience as simply lack of self-acceptance, we risk misidentifying gracious warnings from God as attacks from Satan. When we do this, we forget the crucial difference between Christ’s invitation to come as you are and the unbiblical invitation to stay as you are.

When Christ calls us, he genuinely loves and embraces us, having fulfilled all conditions himself for our full acceptance. But in the same act, he calls us to hate our old nature and lay it aside (Ephesians 4:22), to strive for renewal (Romans 12:2), and to deny ourselves (Matthew 16:24). God does not want us to simply achieve a heightened acceptance of self; he desires our sanctification (1 Thessalonians 4:3).

Though we may not realize it, the call to “just love yourself more,” when it is offered in answer to feelings of guilt, can undermine this key truth. Neglect of biblical truth leaves the truly regenerate heart even more dissatisfied and confused.

3. The Bible recasts love of self.

But what does the Bible say? In 2 Timothy 3:1–5, we read that in the last days people will be “lovers of self . . . rather than lovers of God.” So, there is a way in which love of self can usurp the rightful place of God in our hearts.

Many readers may recoil at this point. Perhaps you’ve struggled with crushing guilt you just can’t seem to shake. Actively striving for self-love and self-acceptance may seem like the only possible way to shed the feelings of guilt or inadequacy you feel.

However, the temporary relief we might feel by self-love cannot compare to the overwhelming relief of true love and acceptance by God. The “self-acceptance” of the children of God is not an active striving to love ourselves more. Rather, it is coming more and more to see ourselves as God sees us: sinful, guilty, inadequate humans who have been washed clean and declared righteous by faith in Christ (Romans 3:24).

True self-love is acceptance of ourselves as redeemed people. Yes, we are loved and accepted, but it is precisely not because we are worthy in ourselves, but because Christ is worthy. Only when we accept the reality of redemption can we find freedom to look outwards. When our gaze is bent inward on ourselves, we fail to love God and cannot hope to love others.

Do You Love Yourself Enough?

Do you love yourself enough to stop denying that your sins, your faults, your inadequacies are as real as your virtues? Do you love yourself enough to stop scraping together self-worth from broken, sinful pieces of self, and instead to embrace the free gift of the Father’s love for Christ’s sake?

If the world really cared about helping us love ourselves, it would simply preach the gospel. Only the good news of Christ offers true hope. The message of the gospel is a message of freedom from efforts to love our broken selves by providing a worth that comes from outside of our brokenness — a worth that comes from Christ.

Do you love yourself enough to accept that?

Thank you, my friend COL Mikel J. Burroughs for posting "You are Enough Day!" on Labor Day, September 2, 2019.
To each of my friends, you are appreciated, valued, loved and a blessing in more ways that you will ever know - from the heart and soul of family members, close friends and God.

Each human being is unique and sufficient in and of ourselves to develop into the perfect version of ourself by the grace of God.

It is wise for parents of each child to understand that child's capability to learn and how best they learn. Training up a child in the way that God has designed each one to be inclined in certain directions in terms of talents, strengths, and to discern weakness that can be overcome and which should not be attempted to correct
The soul of each human being is created in the image of God and each human being is worthy of respect and honor. in that respect we are each equal in God's sight from beggar to King, Queen or President.

Quotes I appreciate:
1. You are valuable because you exist not because of what you do or have done, but simply because you are - Max Lucado.
2. Be Yourself Everyone Else Already Taken - Oscar Wilde

LORD YOU justify each and every adopted child of YOURS at salvation and YOU imputed the righteousness of the Christ to our individual account and have wiped up fee of all sin.
I pray that each and every one of YOUR adopted sons and daughters understands that YOU see us complete and whole since YOU see all of existence and know the end and the beginning. I pray that each of us will look upon each and every other human being as worthy of respect and valuable in and of themselves.
Forgive us for unrighteously judging the eternal destiny of others in our minds and enable us to completely repent and make amends with any we have offended.
YOU are the only ONE who knows the destiny of each person. Let YOUR light shine through each of us to draw others towards YOU. Give us ears to listen to the heart’s cry of others and enable us to be good listeners to those who pour out feelings. I pray that we will keep confidences and never gossip.
By the power and authority of the Name above all names, Jesus the Christ.

Images:
1. You are valuable because you exist not because of what you do or have done, but simply because you are - Max Lucado.
2. Be Yourself.
3. Passage of Time in my life updated.


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