Most everyone who has studied this closely agrees that knowing we have value is vital to becoming whole and functioning well. The question then becomes, how is that best accomplished?
We hear a lot today about how and why loving ourselves is necessary and the best way (maybe the only way) to feel good about ourselves. Why? Because others will fail us, but we can always choose to love ourselves. 
But what if there is someone who knows you with all your flaws and cares about you and loves you regardless and better than you ever could? Do you think/believe that's even possible?
Someone who has infinite knowledge, infinite ability, infinite love, infinite resources, and an infinite desire to care for you could do that better than you can.
That would not be you. A finite being - you or I - cannot meet an infinite need. We were never designed to meet our infinite need for love. Believing we could is when all our troubles began.
Our only challenge is believing God knows and loves us better than we do and entrusting ourselves to his care, that whatever He gives or withholds is best for us. This is the exact opposite of what Adam and Eve concluded when they chose to eat from the tree of good and evil.
Is there anything that helps us to believe he loves us in this way?
John 15:13 "The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them." - Jesus
1Jn 4:9 "And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him. 10 This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven."
Christ said you can know the truth and the truth will set you free. He also said "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me..." Do you believe this?
Is there anything that helps us to believe he loves us in this way?
John 15:13 "The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them." - Jesus
1Jn 4:9 "And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him. 10 This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven."
Christ said you can know the truth and the truth will set you free. He also said "I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me..." Do you believe this?
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