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BECOMING TENDER TO OURSELVES.
by God’s love. God can stir the ashes that no longer glow, and the fire that is almost extinguishing can begin to burn once a gain with new flame. I know this is true because God has already set the flame a blaze with a fire that now burns both day and night for Him. I have learned firsthand that genuine relationship with God, with others and with myself begins with love, built on tenderness. If God so loved us, we also need to love ourselves. But not self- love built on selfishness and self- centeredness. Rather, love that’s wholesome that builds within us respect, confidence and esteem, which allows us to better give ourselves in love to God and to others.
How can we have genuine relationship with ourselves? There are a few ways that we can learn and put into practice to help us have lasting relationship with ourselves.
a>. We can learn to love and forgive ourselves as God loves and forgives us.
True self tenderness begins when we discover firsthand that we’re loved unconditionally by God. His love is forever and forever forgiving. No matter what mistakes we make, if we seek genuine
forgiveness, He’ll forgive us. But we should not continually indulge ourselves in
wrongdoing, ask for forgiveness today, and then again the next day do the same wrongdoing. For instance, if a married woman is noticed to be immoral, in order for her to seek true forgiveness, she must be willing to end the immorality. A person asking for forgiveness and again doing the same wrongdoing abuses the gift of forgiveness. After turning away from the wrongdoing and seeking true forgiveness, we must also forgive ourselves for our mistakes. We should nor rehash or lash again for our past mistakes. God’s love forgives, lasts and never ends. We always come to a point of desliking ourselves, deciding that we never cannot change, but truly we can begin a fresh process of loving deeply the friends we relate with, because insomuch as love grows in us, so in us beauty grows; for love is the beauty of the soul. Allow God’s love to flow and fill you and let it flow and fill others as well.
. We can strive to grow in deep relationship with others and with God as well.
When our troubled hearts return home to the father, we get new enthusiasm to learn about Him. This is because we want to spend most of our time with Him, if we love someone, we would want to learn and know more about Him. In the process, we find hidden treasures in our relationship with closer trusted fiends. As we become tender to ourselves, we allow ourselves to open up, look for help in confidence, and appreciate everything that we’re done to. In our growth in right relationship, God will fill our heart, mind, moments and our very being.
. We can change the way we think about ourselves.
A tough world may be telling you that if you don’t meet its materialistic offer, you’re not worth much, have no place here, will never yield into anything good. But the scripture says that we should not be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed into the renewing of our mind that we may know God’s will . In other words, don’t listen to what a tough world is telling you. If you want a transformed life, you can change simply by changing your mind about yourself your life. Do not listen to what the tough world says, and never believe the failures that have been described on you.