YOUR SELF-WORTH
Working at
Waste Management on the annual budget I experienced a dramatic failure. After
hours of work with four other staff we lost all our work on the computer when I
tripped and kicked the power cord out of the wall. The computers went dark. The
darkness of the moment overwhelmed me. I felt a tremendous flood of failure
overwhelm me. I felt I let others down. I felt all our efforts were wasted. I
felt incompetent. I believed the angry words voiced at me by the group. I
acknowledged their “stinkin’ thinkin’” to myself. I had let my ability to
produce determine my self worth.
What led up
to that moment in my life were years of learning how to value others and be
valued by what I do. Simple inabilities were shown to be defects in by ability
to do anything. Simple misunderstandings were taught to me as deficiencies in
by knowledge or ability to learn. If could not measure up to the impossible
standards of others, then I believed I was of no value or worth to others or
myself.
Causes
of low Self-Worth include:
Neglect: Children are
taught the wrong things by the actions of neglecting adults.
“I will
never leave you nor forsake you.” Joshua 1:5
Failures: Was Moses a
failure?
Failure is
something we do, it is not something we are.
“I can do
all things through him who gives me strength.” Philippians 4:13
