How do we view ourselves?

There are times when we all suffer from negative thoughts and the circumstances tend to put us down. If we do have a right image of our self then we can easily over come those moments but if not we continue to suffer in those thoughts and make ourselves a miserable people.
God has not left us without comfort and sweet words. His Words gives us hope and a reason to live. When we see ourselves from His perspective, we find ourselves in a better position. Thank God, we are not left alone to guess the way out but Scripture guides us in all matters of life.

I am currently reading “The Christian Looks at Himself” by A.A. Hoekema. I found this book very helpful and thought of sharing a few thoughts from it with you all.

“If we claim to be Christians as honest with ourselves, we shall have to admit many of us tend to have a self-image that over-accentuates the negative. Many of us commonly see ourselves through the purple-colored glasses of our depravity-sometimes even called “total depravity.” I do not deny that according to the Scriptures we are all by nature depraved or sinful in every aspect of our being, but the same scriptures teach us about redemption and renewal. Sad to say, however, many of us tend to look only at our depravity and not our renewal. We have been writing our continuing sinfulness in capital letters, and our newness in Christ in small letters. We believe in our depravity so strongly we think we have to practice it, while we hardly dare to believe in our newness.

Jesus loves you.