Matt 22:37-39
37And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect).
38This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.
39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.
Weve all heard this scripture at one time or another .
But what about all the people out there that dont love theirselves ?
"Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
I used to be one of those people who hated every thing about me .I hated my face, my personality ,I always wanted to be somebody else .
I hated my body ,all my girlfrieds looked so much better than me ,they had all the boy friends ,they had everything ,I had notta .
This continued through my marriage ,until I met Jesus Christ .
He gave me a new me ,to love .
This new me has the very righteousness of God , Im a new creature in Christ Jesus . Im strong in the Lord and in the power of His might .I can do all things through Christ who stregthens me. I have the love of God shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit .I am Gods favorite , I am highy favored of God ,the apple of His eye . He gave me gifts of the Holy Spirit , He gave me His anointing ,He gave me everything He had to give , He held nothing back from me .
So I love me pretty good now , Gods still got alot to work on but were off to a good start .
So if your down on yourself all the time lookin at all the bad ,
get in the Book and see what you have in Christ Jesus and you have to love that .
Hes a big God and can do big things ,He can change anyone who is willing to change .
You cannot love God until He gives you the very love to love Him with .I dont believe you can love yourself or anyone else with out that same love ...if we could we wouldnt need Him then would we .
I AM the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. ..........................
4Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me.
5I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
6If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned.
7If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
8When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.
9I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue in His love with Me].
10If you keep My commandments [if you continue to obey My instructions], you will abide in My love and live on in it, just as I have obeyed My Father's commandments and live on in His love.
11I have told you these things, that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy and gladness may be of full measure and complete and overflowing.
12This is My commandment: that you love one another [just] as I have loved you.
13No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends.
14You are My friends if you keep on doing the things which I command you to do.
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