Website owner: James Miller
For people to like themselves they have to be the kind of
person they can respect and like. They must be honest,
upright, just, kind and good. They have to be the kind of
person that acts right and does the right thing. They have to
be a person who does the things he ought to do. They cannot
respect or like themselves if they lie, cheat, steal, shirk
their responsibilities and moral duties, or have no moral
principles.
If a person has low self-esteem he must first ask himself if he
is measuring himself by the right measure. Are his values as
to what is important right? Or has society tricked him into
false values and wrong measures? What are the false values and
measures that society tricks people into using?
- measuring according to mental or physical abilities or
talents
- measuring on the basis of material success (big houses,
expensive cars, social position, good jobs, wealth,
etc.)
What are the right values and right measures by which to
measure yourself and others? The right values and measures are
those God uses in his evaluation of us. He doesn't make his
evaluation on the basis of things that are in our genes, things
we can't change or do anything about (i.e. abilities and
talents that he has given to some of us and not to others).
He, instead, will make his judgments on the basis of what we
have done with what we have and the degree to which we have
lived true to his moral law. In other words, the true values
are moral values and the measure by which we should judge
others and ourselves is the moral measure. What do we mean?
God measures us on the basis of how honest, upright, just,
compassionate and good we are and that is the measure by which
we should measure ourselves and others.
Sept 1996
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