YOU ARE PRECIOUS TO ME

Self-esteem – built on God’s esteem!

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 re you able to look in the mirror today and say, "Thank You Lord, You did a good job?"  If you can’t you’ll settle for anyone who can give you what you’re incapable of giving yourself – a sense of worth! 

Listen, we can not become arrogant, but we do have to find a healthy balance somewhere between martyrdom and narcissism.  Until we do everybody else’s needs and opinions will be more important than ours.  We must not allow this; when that happens we end up annoyed, living without things we don’t have enough self-esteem to ask for because we don’t think we deserve them.

LOW SELF-ESTEEM is everywhere.  There is not a place that we don’t see evidence in this. If we don’t believe in ourselves and respect our own opinions we’ll finish up living to please everyone else.  One wrong look or one critical word from them and we’ll say, "I’ll never do that, say that, or wear that again."  Talk about feeling worthless and insecure!  Thank God we don’t have to live that way.  Peter writes, "The God of all grace… [will], make you perfect, establish, strengthen, [and] settle you” (1Peter 5:10).  

God wants to give us a sense of self-esteem – built on His esteem. 

Will we let Him?  Once others have heard us sing confidently they’ll want to hum along.  We just have to make sure they’re in harmony when they do.  WE train others to treat us by how we treat ourselves.  

The buyer will pay no more than the seller demands.  So today we go to God and, we ask Him to tell us who we are, and what we’re worth.  He will say, "You are precious to me.  You are honored, and I love you."  That’s God’s opinion – make it yours!

In Christ,

Playwright Janet Irene Thomas
Founder/CEO
Bible Stories Theatre of
Fine & Performing Arts
www.biblestoriestheatre.org
info@biblestoriestheatre.org