You have a relationship with yourself

**Joyce Meyer

Did it ever occur to you that you have a relationship with yourself? You may have never given it much thought, but you spend more time with yourself than anyone else, and it is vital that you get along well with you because you are the one person you never get away from.

We should love ourselves, not in a selfish, self-centered way that produces a lifestyle of self-indulgence, but in a balanced, godly way that affirms God's creation as essentially good and right. We may be flawed by unfortunate experiences we have gone through, but that does not mean we are worthless and good-for -nothing.

We must have the kind of love for ourselves that says, "I know God loves me, so I can love what God chooses to love. I do not love everything I do, but I accept myself because God accepts me." We must develop the kind of mature love that says, "I believe God is changing me daily, but during this process, I will not reject what God accepts. I will accept myself as I am right now, knowing that I will not always remain this way."

Prayer starter: God, like Isaiah 43:25 says, You blot out my sins and accept me, which means that I do not have to reject myself. I am free to love myself in a healthy way because You love me!

Isaiah 43:25

"I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my won sake, and remembers your sins no more.