A New Way to Look at Self-Esteem

Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. Hebrews 11:26

 

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3

 

My granddaughter was helping me work on the Game of Wisdom, a game that I am creating. Scoring is an issue. The answers of the players are deciphered to be right or wrong before they get to make a move on the scoreboard. The issue of self-esteem came up in the discussion. She waived this off like it wasn’t a problem. Later, I was able to tell her she was right in her thinking.

 

The next day I read this in Days of Praise by Henry M. Morris. “The problem really is too much self-esteem. The biblical command is that we should in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.”

 

Think about this for a moment. Do we have people in our culture today with so much self-esteem they do not want to surrender to Christ? Paul wrote about dropping all his Roman credentials because he knew the reward Christ offered to him. Jesus came to serve the world on Christmas Eve.

 

Prayer: Dear Lord, help us to understand what Christ did for us when he came to earth as a baby. Help us to know saving us from our sins provides greater riches than any other. May we esteem others better than ourselves and not build up ourselves or others falsely. Amen.

 

Sandra Hilsabeck