Dealing with Low Self-Esteem

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Low Self-Esteem ↔ Pride

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. - Jude 6

Improper estimate of our worth Pride Improper estimate of our worth

Measure worth by possessions Pride Improper estimate of our worth Measure worth by possessions

Excessive self-sufficiency Pride Improper estimate of our worth Measure worth by possessions Excessive self-sufficiency

Many problems are rooted in the spirit and manifested in the psyche.

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. - Romans 12:3

The goal is sober or sound judgement of ourselves.

The Sober Truth About Self The Inward Man The Flesh

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. - Galatians 5:17

For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man. - Romans 7:22

Our Flesh gets in the way The Conflict We Know the Truth Our Flesh gets in the way

A Sober & True Self Analysis: We are in Christ For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:26

- Isaiah 64:6 For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away. - Isaiah 64:6

God’s estimate of our value or worth is based on our relationship with Christ, not our performance.

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. - Romans 8:1

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. - I Corinthians 6:9-10

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. - I Corinthians 6:11

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood — - Revelation 1:5

and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father — to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. - Revelation 1:6

Our Self-Esteem God decides our value

Our Self-Esteem God decides our value Our value is priceless

Accepting reality is accepting these sober truths Our Self-Esteem God decides our value Our value is priceless Accepting reality is accepting these sober truths

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