Why do I let my lack of self-worth overrule my faith?

Question

I firmly believe in my Savior Jesus Christ and his ability to perform miracles, but it seems as if my faith is weak when it pertains to myself.

Answer 1

There is no shortcuts to a spiritual maturity. Give it time.

If you believe that you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, you have asked forgiveness for you sins, and repented from your wrong doings...you just need to trust that Jesus is going to do His share.

He went great distance to save your soul. Do not let Satan to rob your peace. Guilt comes form Satan and conviction comes from God.

Read John3:16-
Romans 8:1
John 5:24

Remember, your salvation is not about your righteousness. Accept it ans you will receive. God loves you. He died for all of your sins. For ALL of them. Serve your Lord the best you can and leave the rest for our Lord. : )

Answer 2

I still have this problem rather a lot myself.

We need to renew our mind to think in God's way. At the moment your mind has lots of negative assessments coming from self-judgements and other people's worldly and at times hard assesments.

So get those scriptures about God's view of you - His being Father, and His love to you. Read these regularly aloud - this is called confession. It rewires the mind to think aright, as things actually are in terms of your actual standing with God. Otherwise the mind keeps at its old negativity. Then that will make your faith much better.

At least that is what I've heard; I'm still putting it into practice - I am progressing.

BTW once born again, we are children of the High king of the Universe, and will be joint heirs of Christ in Eternity. This is all by grace - its for free for us who have faith.

Answer 3

Our faith will be tried, for the glory of God. 1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

We can never look at our "self" as having worth. We are wretched worms. We really don't know why he saved us, if we continue in the truth. Only Jesus is worthy of glory and honor and praise.

Answer 4

It's okay. You're human. You're not the first person in history to doubt yourself. Moses was one of many people who doubted himself. Faith in God is not the same as faith in yourself. So, you can lack faith in yourself while having faith in God. Don't listen to the religious crazies. Listen to God. Remember how Jacob had to wrestle with God? You have to wrestle with God in prayer and by reading scripture (been there, done that, go back to the mat every so often). It may take years for you to resolve your inner conflict and that's okay. Wrestle with God. Understand too that God will not perform miracles for all of us when it suits us. He will deliberately let us struggle at times. If He helped us out immediately every time, we would never learn and grow. Just wrestle with the living God. Everything will be fine :-).

Answer 5

Learn to love yourself. Only by learning self acceptance will you truely be able to accept others. You hold the ultimate responsibility for your own soul...not for those of others. You can help by giving advice and guidance to others but you cannot make them accept it. So the advice you are giving to others, you should take for yourself and accept it and use it to nuture your own soul first, then you will make more of an impact on others simply by the way you carry yourself in your day to day activities. There is NO reason for you to feel a lack of self worth...we are all here for a purpose...look inside yourself to figure out that purpose and then you will understand your worth.

Answer 6

You're being contradictory. If you "firmly" believed, then your faith wouldn't be weak or your value as a person low. As long as your faith is lacking, so too will everything pertaining to it.

Answer 7

Perhaps you can think of it in a different way.

It would basically be arrogant of you to disagree with God, wouldn't it? If Jesus loves you, which you claim to know, then who the hell are you to disagree? Besides, Jesus probably really doesn't care what you think about yourself, but what you do to help others.

Don't even be concerned about the faith you have in yourself. Focus on your faith in your savior and know that you "can do all things in He who strengthens me"

Look up "Desiderata" and let it be.

Answer 8

Well I think I can help you clear this up... Look at this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lnFobYlsF4

There is a lack of empirical data that supports the belief that Christ existed. If you watch the video it will point out many reasons why there's a lack of data supporting that idea that Jesus existed.

Answer 9

Rush Limbaugh. he's a huge articulator and grasp of conservativism. He surely believes in God and advocates Christianity yet i will tell via ways he talks now and returned that he isnt one himself. Mark Levin. he's an offended little Jew yet his radio tutor is 2nd to none. (different than in line with threat Rush) yet another super instructor of conservatism. Jesus replaced into the 1st authentic Christian. You gotta %. yet another. Gandhi could declare to be a Christian when you consider that it is how hindus are. i appreciate very few who deny Christ. Gandhi even with the indisputable fact that replaced into very wonderful and he helped reform western custom.

Answer 10

You are created in the image of God.

We are all human and as such we all fail and screw up from time to time.

Your lack of self worth stems from what you learned in your family of origin, not from God.

Please consider counseling for your self-worth issues.

Know that Jesus thinks you were worth dying for, that's pretty worthy don't you think?