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Accept Yahweh's love. If Yahweh loves you, who are you to reject
that love, by reason of your unworthiness?
Desire for yourself what Yahweh intends for you. Desire to be
righteous.
Be open to Yahweh, with a desire for the supreme spiritual
relationship. The benefits of the relationship will flow from
Yahweh.
The best way to love yourself is to love Yahweh, and your
neighbour.
- Have,
- Self-esteem.
- Heed and regard the actions of others in and upon your life.
Pay constant attention and keep your gaze steadily on Yahweh.
Develop insight and perception.
- In all you do, consider Yahweh, and His will, and refrain
from taking offence from others.
- Avoid unrighteous
interference by others.
- Act with your safety, health, and welfare in mind, in both
spiritual and material matters.
- Regard all actions by others in and upon your life with
honest appreciation.
- Self-fervour.
- Be passionate and zealous for knowledge of Yahweh.
- Be seriously determined. Continue firmly and obstinately,
despite obstacles, or forcible resistance by word or deed.
- Come to be righteous, enjoy it, prefer it, wish for it.
- Have loyalty and faithfullness towards righteousness, and be
steadfast in your allegiance.
- Develop habitual thoughts, words and deeds which express
your self-respect as a child of Yahweh.
- Think or do nothing which is not useful.
- Self-knowledge.
- Be eager to know yourself.
- At all times practice honest appreciation of your thoughts
and actions.
- Take a strong interest in yourself, and your actions. Do not
be indifferent, nor ignorant.
- Self-yearning.
- Become sensitive to your needs, and character.
- Learn to be delicate, and susceptible to your experience of
pain and grief, in the face of the world's actions.
- Have fondness and goodwill towards yourself.
- Develop liking and affection towards yourself.
Limits to Loving yourself
There are limits to loving yourself.
Loving yourself does not mean being self-centred, or tolerating
non-Christian behaviour in yourself, or exposing others to
unnecessary demands on their tolerance.
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