SELF ESTEEM
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What you see of yourself determines the level of submission you enjoy from the devil. Your comportment is not simply determined by what you know of all that God has put at your disposal; it actually depends on all what you have chosen to do with what God has put in your disposal. “Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish” Psalm 49:20.
The place of a conscious walk in the provisions of God’s boundless grace cannot be overemphasized. Nobody does it for you; it is up to you whatever you choose to make out of all that God has put at your disposal. It is very clear in the Scriptures; that, the just shall live his by faith. What God has said concerning you is one; but, what you have to say of yourself of all that God has said to you is another thing altogether. The devil knows what God has spoken concerning you; but, he doesn’t know if you believe it for yourself.
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Anytime the devil sees someone who believes what God has spoken and is ready to work and run with it; the devil knows he has an impossible case on hand and he flees. Victory has to do with what you believe for yourself and what you see of yourself in the light of God’s awesome provisions. When Moses sent twelve men to spy out the land of Canaan – a place God had earmarked for His people; ten of them came with a majority report of low self esteem. They told Moses and the whole congregation of Israel – “We saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come from the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight” Numbers 13:33. These men and all those who believed their evil report were not just grounded by what they saw; but, by their low self esteem which came, by reason of a misappropriation of what they saw.
Proper self esteem does not do with reasoning; it goes with your faith in God and His Word. You cannot God by your reasoning; you can only contact God by faith in His Word. Proper self esteem is not what you see on the outside, but who you are on the inside. Nehemiah was very emphatic about this, when he said – “should such a man as I flee?”. What do you have to say of the hand of God upon your life and His grace upon you? Have you ever asked yourself in the light of true holiness – should such a man as I engage in this type of filthy communication? Should such a man or woman as I succumb to this seduction of hell? What sayest thou of thyself?