Reflections
True humility is not the result of putting oneself down, or of denying oneself enjoyment. Rather, true humility is only possible if I see the greatness of Jesus Christ.
Human thinking tells us that we either have high self-esteem or low self-esteem. And much Christian teaching today is geared to affirming high self-esteem in Christian people .Many are teaching that God wants us to have high self-esteem and that to know God loves us will actually enhance that. That is a lie. For both high and low self-esteem are a focus upon SELF. We need to be delivered from self.
The Bible states directly that no person ever hated his own flesh. Our problem is not self-hate. Rather, it is too much self-love. What we call self-hate is really a frustrated self-love. God’s love doesn’t make us love ourselves more. It makes us love HIM.
To know Jesus Christ does not make us feel good about ourselves. But neither does it make us feel bad about ourselves. It delivers us out of needing to feel anything about ourselves at all. We are free to stop fussing over ourselves and to leave ourselves alone to God.
But we will never understand any of this unless we begin to see Jesus