Daily Dose - April 14, 2020
Let’s set the record straight. Self-love is not selfish. It’s the second greatest commandment God gave us. By definition, self-love is regard for one’s own well-being while selfishness is a lack of consideration for others and being concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.
Just know that as you stand up for what is true, what is pure, and what is healthy for you along this self-love journey, when you stand on your faith, your hopes, your gifts, your dreams, and your unique calling, you are standing on the word of God.
Only then can healing take place so that you can shine like the masterpiece that God created you to be.
Mark 12:30-31
Minister Sapphire Jule King
#SelfLoveMinistry
#OpenAndReceive
5 Minute Fill-Up
Self-love is our native tongue. God created us free, clear, and without knowledge of self-debasement. Affirming ourselves with loving words, viewing ourselves with beautiful thoughts, and speaking out the truth of our value and worth in God’s eyes is our natural state.
Do not allow the vitriol of life to drown out, scratch, or change your self-love song. The criticisms, judgments, and darkness of life shouting at you, trying to convince you to hate yourself, are all lies.
Always remember the truth: God created you in love, to love Him and to love yourself wholly and completely. Speak to yourself and about yourself to others in your native language of self-love.
Get your fire back. Crank it loud and sing it proud!
Mark 12:30-31
Minister Sapphire Jule King
#SelfLoveMinistry
#OpenAndReceive
Self-Love Nightcap
I find it quite disheartening to see “Love God, Love Others” or “Love God, Love People” as the predominant emphasis for Mark 12:31. The scripture clearly instructs us to love ourselves then share or extend that kind of love to others. If we do not love ourselves, how is it possible to love others as ourselves? As the saying goes, we can’t give away what we don’t have. We have to put our own proverbial oxygen masks on first before we can supply oxygen to the next person.
The personal connection issue that I am presenting to God for permanent healing is rooted in childhood. An adult caretaker to which I had become deeply attached became inaccessible suddenly and unexpectedly. While I cannot recall the exact thoughts that filled my five-year-old mind or the emotions brewing within my six-year-old heart, I do specifically remember initiating contact with this person repeatedly – all with the help of other adults of course. Each attempt netted a very clear rejection. After each “go away” or ” I don’t want to talk to you,” the well-meaning adults still present in my life would instruct me to “love” this person.
To a child, I suppose “loving” meant trying over and over and over again despite having my heart battered repeatedly. But I have to wonder if something within my young self was telling me to just accept it, let it be, leave it alone? I wonder if that natural, healthy inclination toward acceptance and letting go became entangled with, somehow confused with, and ultimately undermined by the directive to “love” this person? I wonder if I ever expressed that I was done, that I no longer wanted to try to initiate contact with this person? If so, I wonder if I was urged to “love” this person and thus try again? In essence, was I encouraged to love others in spite of the harm it would cause me?
To be sure, “loving” that person by those actions hurt me and caused me pain.
Given how society so openly emphasizes “Love God, Love Others” clearly at the expense of loving oneself, I would not be surprised if my musings are correct.
Mark 12:30-31
Minister Sapphire Jule King
#SelfLoveMinistry
#OpenAndReceive