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Why It's Biblical to Love Yourself and Forgive Yourself

It took me a very long time to get to the point where I understood why it is Biblical to love ourselves, or to be more specific, “to love myself”. It took me even longer to understand why it is Biblical to forgive ourselves...myself. I'm certain I am not the only one who has studied the Bible thoroughly for years and struggled with this. Originally, this was partly rooted in a false image of what God was really like--a loving, accepting Abba-Father--and partly a need to be free from a spirit of condemnation (which I misunderstood to be “God's correction” or conviction). Additionally, it was because of a reaction to pop-culture psychology that pushed it excessively while at the same time dis-espoused anything of Jesus from its pseudo-inner healing and pseudo-self-help philosophy. (To say nothing about pseudo-prophecy and pseudo-spiritual knowledge). Even still, having been free from aforementioned misconceptions and experiencing the Father heart of God truly, I still coul