I think at one time or another we have all experienced it. Negative self-talk. You look at yourself in the mirror or you make a bad mistake and you just berate yourself. You talk smack about yourself. It might not even be that bad. It is however a form of meditation. Bad meditation is not good.
We will have the negative self-talk and maybe not even think anything about it.
Here is a twist. What if we had a meeting and you brought in your five or six year old child and I started talking down to that child in front of you with the same inner critic voice that you speak to yourself? How would that make you feel?
Sometimes it’s so hard to look at yourself in the mirror, to see the child behind the eyes, see the person that God sees through the hurt and pain.
Embrace your mess, invite Jesus into that mess and see yourself the way he sees you, forgive yourself, some of it wasn’t even in your fault but you feel like it was.
You are worth the blood of Jesus. He didn’t die for junk. Billy Graham
Galatians 2:20 So here I am dead and alive at the same time! I’m dead to the old me I was trying to be and alive to the real me which is Christ in me! Co-crucified, now co-alive! What a glorious entanglement! I was in him in his death; now he is in me in my life! For the first time I’m free to be me in my skin, immersed in his faith in our joint-sonship! He loves me and believes in me! He is God’s gift to me!
Receive God’s forgiveness for yourself so you can become forgiveness to others and yourself.
Matthew 6.6 