How do people get self-esteem from God?

Question

Have you had an experience where they had low self-esteem but they learned to love themselves through a relationship with God? how do you decide to care about God's opinion more than everyone else's?

Answer 1

Yes, I have seen that happen.

This is the first step of the spiritual journey: recognizing who God is and who I am in relation with Him. If I can manage to do that, then my low self-esteem (the result of lies either other people told me or I told myself) or my overly high self-esteem ( ditto) will be burned away. Having a clear-eyed view of my relationship with God clears the way for further spiritual growth toward Him. That's when we recognize the strength and power we have as sons/daughters of the Living God and brothers/sisters to Jesus Himself.

I myself struggle continuously with remembering to cherish God's idea of me and not other people's (or even my own). 5 easy steps to doing it? Man, if you find them, please pass them on to me. All I do is take it day by day and pray pray pray.

Answer 2

Self esteem comes from inside of you. If you are looking for esteem from outside of yourself (from an external source, whether you are looking to God, or other people, or even a pet) it is NOT "self" esteem.
Self esteem is about loving and caring for yourself, and the good kind of pride (the one that comes infused with the ability to be humble).
Find your own self, learn to love and appriciate yourself and your gifts and abilities. Know yourself, including your faults. Be real with yourself, and if you do not like some habit or thought process you have, work step by step to fix it within yourself FIRST, with love and compassion. Watch that you are not critical of others, as this only leads to ugliness within yourself (and usually indicates that whatever you are complaining about in someone else is a fault you do not like within yourself).
Treat others how you'd like to be treated (being careful not to martyr yourself for another...that is Co-dependancy).
Doing what you know is right, as often as you can, forgive yourself and others when mistakes are made, strive to be a better you, not because you are bad, but because we ALL make mistakes (EVERYONE DOES), and looking for the positive and beautiful all around you, will lead you to happiness and a love filled exsistance.
God, or the Creator, or the Universal Life Intelligence, or the Idea of Zen.....those are all just different ways of finding which words best define your Spirituality. There is no ONE way to describe it...and how you do is ALL yours. Live in LOVE!!

Answer 3

God is ur creator. So u think that if he created u, and still wants u around, then u must besomething special to him. Especially if he's protecting u from all the dangers in the world. Then u make a decision, and think, hey, the most powerful guy in the world thinks I'm worth keeping, so why do I care that all these other insignificant humans, don't like me? As long as I'm liked and cared for by God, who needs humans? What value should their opinion have on me? Because my maker thinks I'm something wonderful. It's not easy to think like this, because u don't often see God, but humans are everywhere, and often equipped wirth sharp tongues and ciriticsms. So people end up believing them above all else...and that's where they fall. But then if they do believe, they'll look to God and he'll help them up.

Answer 4

Love thy neighbour as thyself. First you have to have a healthy and holy love of self before you can love others as yourself. The confidence which only God can provide is inexplicable, suffice it to say, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
You must ask God to help you grow in your relationship with Him. You can not possibly live the holy life demanded of God without the Holy Spirit.
God's Word is powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. Self-esteem comes from confidence in yourself. If God be for you, who can be against you? You can't get more confidence than that.
Knowing that God loved you so much that He gave His only begotten Son that you might have eternal life with Him, how can you not have a healthy self-esteem?
Do not take the advice or opinions of humans, as all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not on your own understanding. Read, meditate upon and study God's Word, The Holy Bible

Answer 5

If you think you need to decide to care about God's opinion more than everyone else's, then you do not understand God or your relationship to Him. Understanding raises self-esteem to its proper level without any decisions.

Answer 6

No because if your self-esteem improves it is not from god, but rather the result of self-improvement. And no again, I do not care about god's opinion. I am an Agnostic and do not believe in a god. So, since there is no god, then how can he have an opinion?

Answer 7

It's actually a matter of faith. In the Bible it says that we (human beings) are created according to the image and likeness of God. God is with us and in us. We see God in each other...man or woman, young or old, black or white, tall or short, rich or poor. That means each and everyone of us are special and unique in our own way. If you believe this, then that alone will give you a boost of confidence... and gives you a different perspective towards others because we are all children of God.

Answer 8

Well, when you accept Jesus Christ into your heart, you really know he's there, and you believe that he's always helping you. If you want self esteem from God, you pray to him, and he'll come to you and you'll learn to understand that God is mighty and he loves you and gives you what's best for you no matter what.

Answer 9

I LOVE this question..and yes this has been an experience of mine...I always cared about what people thought of me from day one of my life for the longest time. then after awhile I started to realize that people come and go so quickly in your life who the heck cares what they thing of you for the short time they are in your life. SO i just started caring what I thought of myself and how god looks at me as a person. I know it sounds corny and adults all told us as kids and e didn't listen but treating others as we wante to be treated is the best way to live life because when you do this it makes you feel GREAT about who you are and you dont give a Sh*T what others think and when you feel good about yourself others pick up on this and a naturally drawn to your good energy. in the end it all works out. in the end you have to think WWJD

Answer 10

To come from a glob of matter in a mud puddle does not give a person much self-esteem. To have been created by a loving God gives one much self-esteem.