ARTICLE >>> Self-Acceptance

from How to Succeed at Being Yourself
by Joyce Meyer

I’ve read this piece by Joyce & it holds a lot of messages for us all … enjoy my thoughts combine with her ideas …

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he…
PROVERBS 23:7

Do you like yourself? Joyce notes that most people don't like themselves. In her experience with people, trying to help them be whole (complete) in emotional, mental, spiritual and social, she made a major breakthrough when she discovered that most people really don't like themselves. Some of them know it, while others don't even have a clue that is the root of many other problems in their life.

Self-rejection and even self-hatred are the root causes of many relationship problems. If you believe in God; he wants us to have great relationships. The Bible & Quran are books about relationships; God, with other people and with ourselves.

Did it occur to you that you even had a relationship with yourself? Your spend more time with yourself than with anyone else, and it is vital that you get along well with YOU

You are one person you never get away from.

It is agonizing it is to work day after day with someone we don't get along with, but at least we don't have to take that person home with us at night. But we are with us all the time, day and night. We never have one minute away from ourselves, not even one second - therefore, it is of the utmost importance that we have peace with ourselves.

WE CANNOT GIVE AWAY WHAT WE DON'T HAVE

In theory, when a person receives God’s love (or attains spiritual peace), they will in turn love themselves, love God in return (for free-thinkers, find love in their life) and ultimately, love other people.

But we each have out personal history, which gives us difficulties in relationships. Joyce mentioned that she could not find the people that she liked & enjoyed, who had reciprocal feelings towards her.

She quotes:

“We frequently try to deal with the bad fruit in our lives and never get to the root cause of it. If the root remains, the fruit will keep coming back. No matter how many times we cut it off, eventually it will come back. This cycle is very frustrating. We are trying the best we know how, and yet it seems we never find a permanent solution to our miseries.

I was desperately attempting to display loving behavior, but I had failed to receive God's love; therefore, I could not give love away I did not have any to give.”

Whether you believe in God or not, it is crucial to understand that the nature of our true problems and the answer to those problems that are found in spiritual pursuit. Unless we make a connection between a spiritual source & our problems, we fight the same cycle each day.

So, once we hook up the right problem with the right revelation - the devil is on his way out, and freedom is on its way in.