![]() Who wants to be around a fellow who has a dark cloud of inferiority hanging over his head all the time? Misery loves company, but company doesn’t love misery. Self-loathing can also affect your friendships. Or she might begin to “underdress.” Her dad begins to notice and complains, “You’re not going to school dressed like that, are you?” A teenager who has difficulty with self-love might begin to overdress and run up some high clothing bills. Low self-esteem can also adversely affect your family life. I won’t give him a chance to foul me up again!” Therefore, I will have nothing more to do with God. The logic usually runs like this: “I don’t like me. If you hate yourself, it is impossible to love the Lord. ![]() And one’s inability to love himself affects nearly every area of his life. And so they clothed themselves with fig leaves. No longer were they accepting toward their bodies. And one of the first ways Adam and Eve found themselves broken was in their self-image. And the result, as we have seen was devastating. And they looked on themselves and agreed.īut then came the fall. God has looked on all His creation and pronounced it very good. Both Adam and Eve were naked and “unashamed” ( Genesis 3:7). The book of Genesis teaches that man once had a good self-esteem. Why suicide?Īll of these people are manifesting a brokenness that has troubled the human race since the fall. And what about your friend at the club? He shot and killed himself last month. He was so nice, but you found out he became a transvestite, moved to another city and changed his name from Robert to Roberta. But if you don’t like yourself, where can you go to get away from self? For many the answer comes in alcohol and drugs, a form of chemical escape. And drugs? Why, if one does not like his neighbor he can move. “I can’t do anything right!” They say as they mope through life gloomily. Certainly you’ve run into people with inferiority complexes. Just look at me!” Have you ever known a woman over-interested in clothes and make-up? She is always shopping, always touching up her make-up, and always trying to decide which tint to color her hair. Have you ever known someone to look at a photograph of himself in his high school yearbook and say, “Golly, I take an awful picture. “It’s certainly not you, Ugly!”ĭoes your mirror ever do that to you? Sad to say, but thousands of people’s mirrors disappoint them each day. The mirror’s answer was quite disappointing. Do you remember the fairy tale “Snow White?” Recall how the wicked witch peered into her magic looking glass and said, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
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