Let us make man in our image

It's vital to love yourself (who you are in Christ)

You need to love yourself, and not  the stuck-up, prideful, worldly type of loving oneself (also known as self-worship); we're talking about a concept of being thankful, and appreciating the person who God has made in you. The worldly type of loving yourself is where you are stuck up, prideful and arrogant, whereas this type of loving yourself is based upon humility and thankfulness. The two could not be more different!

Be thankful

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Genesis 1:26

King David appreciated and thanked God for what God gave him. It's vital that we develop this same attitude about what God's given each of us as well.

Forgive yourself!

"See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled" Hebrews 12:15

"I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins."  Isaiah 43:25

"as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us." Psalm 103:12

When we associate ourselves with our past failures, after God's Word has assured us that they have been removed from us... then do you realize that you aren't really believing what God's Word is saying? It's time that we make that choice to forgive ourselves, and then align our thinking with what God's Word has to say. If God says it's removed from us, then we need to take Him for His Word, and believe what it has to say!

Peace