May 21 , 2007

I Love Me Some Me!

A friend of mine told me that is a quote from Terrell Owens (TO) a football player for the Dallas Cowboys. He also told me he thought it was a little conceited. But is it? Maybe when TO said it, it was conceited, but what about when you or I say it?

Our founder Carroll Roberts has begun to use this quote in closing every workout class. He tells the participants to hug themselves and say “I love me some me!”

How many of us have been or still find ourselves in a place where we don’t love ourselves? Our relationships are affected when we don’t love ourselves. How can you love anyone else when you don’t love and value yourself? Let’s not get this twisted or confused, I am not talking about being stuck on yourself. I am talking about loving yourself and seeing your own self worth and value as God sees you. I am not talking about the masks we wear and the words we say that sound good, like I am a Diva, Divine, Princess or Queen. Do you really see yourself that way? Do you really see yourself as beautiful no matter what your hips, thighs or nose looks like? I am talking about knowing who you are and loving yourself from the inside out.

Many of us have found ourselves in places where we lost our self worth either because of something someone said or the way they treated us. Today I want to encourage you to focus on the qualities that God sees in you. How does He see you? Start speaking to yourself not what you see, but what God sees. Challenge yourself not to say anything negative to or about yourself this week.

We all need to reach a point where we can like TO say, “ I Love Me Some Me”, not out of conceit, but because if we can’t say it and actually feel it we will be hurt people that hurt other people or doormats for someone to walk on. When we can reach a point of loving ourselves it changes everything from the way we treat ourselves to the way we treat others. Even our expectations change when we love ourselves. We are no longer willing to settle for someone else’s discards and whatever someone is willing to give us. We want what God has for us. Don’t go from being the one who has no love for yourself to the one that is conceited both are unhealthy, but seek to reach the place of balance where loving yourself helps you to love God and others in a healthy non-clingy, desperate or mean and hurtful way. Know that loving God means loving yourself.

This week we want you to use your initials to define yourself in a positive way. Define yourself using words that God would use to define or identify you. Here are some examples:

JEB=Jubilantly, Energetic and Beautiful
AKW=Angelic, Kind and Wise
DH=Desirable and Holy
MT=Marvelously Tasteful

What would God say about you?

Initials _____            Words To Describe You __________________            __________________

Talk to Yourself this week. Tell Yourself, “I Love Me Some Me!” and mean it. Then find some positive words to describe what you look like in God’s eyes.

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

  Weekly Scripture

Matthew 22:39:
39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a]

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