Being in Love with Love.

Loving others more than you love yourself will only bring imbalance to your life. You will be like a car that has different sized wheels; your journey will not be a comfortable one. You will get the same effect if you love others less than you love yourself. True balance will only come when we love others equal to how much we love ourselves.
I love this commandment from Jesus so much because it is so matter of fact. As far as Jesus was concerned there was no issue about us loving ourselves, why wouldn’t you? Knowing that you have been made in the awesome image and likeness of God (Gen 1: 26), who of course is love (1 John 4: 8), how could you not love yourself?

One of the major causes today of people’s lack of love for themselves is due to them continually comparing themselves to others. They’ve got a better house than me, a nicer car, a more loving husband, better behaved children, longer hair, and smoother skin and on and on the list goes. This kind of behaviour should be stopped immediately as it is harmful and totally unprofitable. Comparing yourself to someone else is like comparing an apple to a toothbrush, it just doesn’t make any sense. You are the only person that was born to be you and no one else can ever be as good at being you as you can, so fall in love with yourself today and every day then others will stand a chance of receiving your love also.

'How do I love myself without being selfish?' you may ask, well one way is to place a high value on yourself. Do not allow others to take you for granted, walk all over you or treat you as though you don't exist. Don't put yourself down or call yourself derogatory names like stupid, dumb or silly. Take good care of yourself; the way you look, the clothes you wear and how you present yourself to the world on a whole says so much about you, and also remember that people will treat you according to how they see you treat yourself.

Loving yourself also means how you take care of yourself in the way that you eat and exercise, not abusing your body with endless amount of fat and sugar which are potentially dangerous to your health. Loving yourself would also include educating yourself, reading, studying, getting wisdom and knowledge in the areas of life that affect you such as family, marriage, business, finance and investments.

Finally, it is only possible to truly love yourself by being in love with love Himself. God is love and to really understand love you have got to spend some time with love; reading His word, meditating on Him, giving Him thanks, praise and worship. This is the key to actually being in love.

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