Self-Image/Uniqueness

 

Teaching Point:

Since we are the handiwork of God, we can feel confident in His work in and through us.

 

If you were to evaluate how you feel about yourself right now with a scale of 1 being low and 10 being high, what number would you assign yourself?

 

Maybe you have heard the quote, “When you compare, you always lose.” I have not found who said it but I like it. Rating ourselves in comparison with someone else is easy to do but never healthy. We look at another person and assess them to be better in certain areas or lacking in others. Either way, we lose and they lose as well.

 

In this song, we hear the writer communicate a high rating of himself in appropriate and inappropriate ways. A few highlights include, I’m too hot, call a police and fireman –Girls shout out your hallelujah –make a dragon retire. We would say he thinks rather highly of himself! He is confident in his manliness, and he is not afraid to let the world know about himself.

 

God’s Word gives us a balanced perspective on this, reminding us that what God has made is good and He is the one who made us—not us! Psalm 139:13- 16 says it best, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

 

God has knitted us together. We are who we are through the work of His hands. What we do with what He has made is up to us. We are charged with taking care of this “temple” and honoring it physically, socially, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. As we keep our eyes on our Creator, we can trust Him to help us think neither too highly or lowly of ourselves. We can celebrate God’s wonderful work in the lives of others and ourselves!

 

In what area of life do you struggle with pride in yourself? In what area of life do you struggle with thinking too negatively of yourself? What is one step you can take to keep these more in balance?