Hello
people, welcome to another time with yours truly, and thank you for taking your
precious time to look at my blog. Today I want to continue from where I stopped
in my last article on Self Love. In the last issue, I wrote about how the
physical side of self love. Right now I want to write about its spiritual side;
in order words how you can love yourself spiritually.
In
the last issue I used Ne-Yo’s quote on the popular song “Let me love you until
you learn to love yourself”. This time I want to talk about my anchor, mentor
and best friend Jesus Christ when he said “Love the lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul and with all your mind; the second is like it love
your neighbour as you love yourself” (Mark 12:30-31). In my last article, I wrote
that the person that loves you should be someone who impacts you positively and
not the other way round. I will try to keep this article as brief as I can.
The
bible is very strict about what love is all about. Love thy neighbour as you
love yourself. God never forbade anyone from loving themselves he only said
that you should spread that same magnitude of self love to others. The fact
that you love yourself means that you will not do anything to hurt yourself.
For instance, you will not sleep with someone else’s sister without first
letting the family know your intentions towards their daughter because you know
that you will not want your daughter to come home with “unwanted pregnancy”.
You will not sell yourself out for money because you don’t want your own
children or your loved ones to follow the same track you are on.
For
those of you who don’t love yourselves you are only admitting that you hate
your own existence if you advice your own daughter to explore “herself” or the
son to “sow his royal oats” everywhere he goes because you did the same thing
as a youth. I have heard and experienced some stories of people who were taught
by their parents how to “play the game of love” because monogamy is
unreasonable. The children realize too late that love is not a game to be
played but a commitment to be honoured.
Can
you imagine I mother teaching her daughter how to seduce men? Or have you heard
of a father teaching his son how to womanize and lie to women? Self love
requires keeping yourself chaste (men and women) until you find that one
special person that you want to spent the rest of your life with. Chastity (or
virginity) is not strictly made for women alone. Although there are no clear
signs that a man is a virgin except in his attitude and gait (speaking from
experience). That does not mean he is unlucky or ugly it only means that he
values his life and wants to set a good example to his own children so that he
can proudly say that “I saved myself for your mother” when everybody says it is
impossible. A friend of mine once told me “you don’t know what your parents
did; why should you keep yourself?” My answer was, “I am me and they are them
whatever they did in their past no matter how deplorable it might be does not
affect me because they told me about the errors of their mistakes so that I do
not walk the same path they did”. My parents have demonstrated “Self love”
because they love their children as they loved themselves.
If
you love yourself, you will not want allow yourself to make the same mistakes
others are making. You will not give in to our generation’s catch phrase
“everybody is doing it”. The truth is, your name is not everybody and not all fingers are equal. God says “Love you” because he says that we are wonderfully
and fearfully made (Psalms 139:14). If you don’t believe me, God took the
precious time to make you just like him when he said, let us make man in our
image and likeness (Genesis 1:26). Indulging in self hating habits like
premarital sex, drugs, excess alcohol consumption, homosexuality, lesbianism,
transexualism, and others, taints your God given Image. You might call it fun
but what do you call that sickening feeling after indulging yourselves in these
vices? You are special.
For
those who are suffering from these vices, know now that you are special. Don’t
allow that pimp, drug dealer, boss, man or woman tell you any different. Let me
boost your self esteem a little bit. A woman is by nature a patient person, a
multiplier, a tamer; she always looks for better ways of solving a problem
which is directly opposite to men who always resort to violence. They have the
strength to nurture a human being for 9 months and the strength of heart to
resist the pain of labour and the heart to laugh after experiencing all that
pain. Wow! As for men, we are the strength of the home, we are the crown of the
woman we provide the “raw materials” for everything like money, and other stuff
that I cannot write down (you know what I mean), we are defenders and we are
leaders.
Stop
undermining yourself. Confess that sin of undermining yourself because no
matter whom you are now, God still loves you. You may be a work in progress but
God still says “you are perfect in my eyes”. He says “I love you with an
everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3). God himself is love (1John 4:8). Others
might undermine you but God says differently. Keep the faith and work on
yourself.
Let
us spread the “Love Culture”.
I
look forward to reading your comments on the box below.
E-Mail:
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So
everyone, LIVE LONG AND EXCEL.
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