Healthy self-image

Here are 10 suggestions to help you develop and maintain a healthy self-image. Read them slowly. Meditate on them regularly.

1. Hate your sin, but never hate yourself.
   
   
   
2. Be quick to repent.
   
   
   
3. When God gives you light, walk in it.
   
   
   
4. Stop saying negative things about yourself. God loves you and it's wrong to hate what He loves. He has great Plans for you, so you're in conflict with Him when you speak negatively concerning your future.
   
   
   
5. Never be afraid to admit that you've made a mistake and don't always assume that when things go wrong, it must be my fault'.
   
   
   
6. Don't meditate excessively on what you've done, right or wrong; both of these activities keep your mind on you! Centre your thoughts on Christ. Listen, You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind {both its inclination and it's character} is stayed on You (Isa 26:3 AMP).
   
   
   
7. Take good care of yourself physically. Make the best of what God gave you to work with, but don't be obsessed with your appearance.
   
   
   
8. Never stop learning but don't allow your education to become a point of pride. God doesn't use you because of what's in your head: He uses you because of what's in your heart.
   
   
   
9. Realize that your talents are a gift, not something you have manufactured yourself; never look down on people who can't do what you do.
   
   
   
10. Don't despise your weaknesses they keep you dependent on God. Now there's something to think about!

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."

[ From: "Douglas Bebout" (dbebout@ziggycom.net), via Keith Todd ]