How Do You See Yourself
@just4him (318927)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
March 10, 2021 8:12am CST
Before I took my shower a short while ago this song was on the radio. The phrase, somehow you don't see me like I do, gave me pause and I had to admit I'm hard on myself. I look in the mirror and see all my flaws. I read my work and see the flaws. I know what my abilities are and see only flaws. I don't measure up to me.
Yet, there is One who looks at my flaws and tells me I'm beautiful. I'm exactly the way He made me. I measure up to Him. If I measure up to God, who am I to tell myself I don't measure up?
How do you measure up in your eyes? Now, see yourself the way God sees you. He loves you with all your flaws.
My lyric video for Matthew West's new single "The God Who Stays" released July 26thThis is one of few songs that really touch me, first one is "My Life" by B...
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Mar 21
The God who Stays, the God who Stands, the God whose LOVE never separates from Us(his child)!
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Mar 21
@just4him What a wonderful assurance he gives to us!
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Mar 21
In 69 years, I've never measured up to anyone's expectations, my own being first in line. I still struggle with inferiority, which for me is 'doubt and unbelief.' God looks at me through different eyes, as the 'apple of his eye!' I see myself as an apple, with all kinds of rotten spots and bruises. Thankyou Lord, your vision is different than mine
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@just4him (318927)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Mar 21
I spent a lifetime trying to measure up to other's expectations. One day I realized it would never happen. Then I tried to measure up to my expectations. That doesn't work either. Praise God, His expectations of me are more lenient and He sees me through His eyes instead of mine.
God doesn't see those spots or bruises. He sees a perfect apple.
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Mar 21
@just4him And learning to see ourselves through spiritual eyes, instead of physical eyes, has been a tough lesson for me. Being called a freak and an odd ball, is still a part of my inner character.
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@just4him (318927)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Mar 21
@kobesbuddy You know you're none of those things.
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@Marilynda1225 (83557)
• United States
10 Mar 21
I see my flaws too and am working hard to see myself the way God sees me.
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@Marilynda1225 (83557)
• United States
11 Mar 21
@just4him nope it's a daily struggle for me.
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@moffittjc (122496)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Mar 21
I'm tough on myself too, as far as how I measure up. But with all the flaws I have, one thing is certain...if God can love me just the way I am, then I should be able to love myself just how I am.
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@moffittjc (122496)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Mar 21
@just4him I have learned over the years to love myself, but that still doesn't stop me from being hard on myself. I always want to look and feel my best, and so I push myself pretty hard sometimes.
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@just4him (318927)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Mar 21
@moffittjc That's great you learned to love yourself. I'm doing better in that department.
I'm always pushing myself to do my best.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84500)
• Rupert, Idaho
10 Mar 21
I always see my flaws....and have a hard time finding something to like about myself. I am not a religious person/believer though. I know my husband likes me as I am though, and I never understand why/how.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84500)
• Rupert, Idaho
11 Mar 21
@just4him I just don't know how to do that....because I don't think there is anything
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@MarshaMusselman (38869)
• Midland, Michigan
12 Mar 21
That's a great song Valerie and so true. I think it's human nature to look at it mistakes but we have to also watch and not get prideful. There's a balance.
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@just4him (318927)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
13 Mar 21
@DianneN I used to. I couldn't even look in the mirror and think good thoughts. All I saw was an ugly person staring back at me. Someone said one thing to do was to look in the mirror and tell yourself you love that person and keep saying it until you meant it. I did that and now I can look at myself in the mirror and like what I see.
Can you imagine I used to think this person was ugly? I look at this now and see a beautiful woman. This is my high school graduation picture.
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@innertalks (22274)
• Australia
11 Mar 21
God does expect us not to overlook our own flaws though, and with discernment and love to root them out, and to overcome them too.
As in the example given in the Bible, where we are to work on ourselves first, rather than our correcting somebody else, in finding an error in them, when there is a bucket load of errors in us.
{I mean the advice to find the plank of wood in our own eye, before we point out the speck of dust in another's eye}
New International Version, Matthew's gospel, chapter 7, verse 3.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank of wood in your own eye?"
Should we try to see our faults, and flaws, and try to fix them too then?
Should we be hard on ourselves?
It is best to try to see our errors that are in our own way (blocking us from fully loving, or hindering our service to God), but realise too that God created us from his love, and there are no errors in love, just errors in our current vision of how that love should work best in our life.
We learn over time to accept more love, and to let it work for us, rather than our trying too hard to get it to work for us, and when we try so hard ourselves, we feel the errors of our ways, rather than seeing the learning as a learning, not as an error.
