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How To Forgive Ourselves – Totally: Chapter 1, Part 2
6. People will like you more when you are forgiven yourself.
Of course you want to be liked! The person who says “I don’t care what they think,” when it comes to the human need of affirmation almost certainly has a severe personality handicap. We all want to be liked. It is human to want friends. Dale Carnegie wrote a bestseller that sold millions – his book How To Win Friends And Influence People. So much of what he taught is embedded in the Book of Proverbs. He was quite biblical without knowing it. But you can read that book, and even profit from it, and find it may not make people like you – when you are riddled with guilt. The thing is, when you totally forgive others and yourself, much of what Dale Carnegie taught might be exemplified in you without you having read his book!
“A man that has friends my show himself friendly” (Proverbs 18:24 KJV). do you want people look like you? Be friendly! But it is so hard to do this when we are bedeviled with our own personal problems.
When I was a pastor in Fort Lauderdale, a lady came to our church who said that our people were so unfriendly. I alerted some of the members there and urged them to go out of their way to be nice to this lady. They tried but noticed that she always left the service during the last hymn and sat in her car all by herself until her husband came out. She never gave the people a chance! The problem was, she was consumed with herself.
I don’t mean to be unfair, but not forgiving yourself is a selfish thing. I’m sorry, but it is. It is an exhibition of the wrong kind of self-love. It is not a play on words. Self-love is preoccupation with your personal desires and concerns; loving yourself is respecting yourself as God intends.
How To Forgive Ourselves – Totally: Chapter 1, Part 2
How To Forgive Ourselves – Totally: Chapter 1, Part 2