The Good Samaritan
Luke 10:25-37
AS YOURSELF
Do you love yourself? Really? Perhaps the reason we sometimes struggle with loving others is because we don’t really love ourselves. Jesus said we were to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Implied in His command is a healthy and helpful love of self. Do you have one?
What do you love about yourself?
What do you not like about yourself?
If you could change one thing about your life (past or present) what would you change?
Does the answer you just wrote affect how you feel about yourself?
How can Psalm 103:10-12 give you peace about your past?
Sometimes we base our love of self on what we think about ourselves instead of what God thinks about us. God knows that on our own, our hearts aren’t good, but that didn’t stop Him from showing us grace. Read Romans 5:8. Before we had life, He showed us love. Why?
Look at Ephesians 1:1-10. Start listing the things God has done for you.
You are someone God has blessed, chosen, loved, adopted, redeemed, enriched, and enlightened. It’s true that God did all this because of His grace and not your goodness, but the fact that you have a Father who desires you and delights in you can help you accept who you are and who you aren’t.
Read 1 Samuel 16:6-7. How do we form our opinions differently than God forms His?
How have you based your self-worth on the appearances of your looks or your lifestyle?
God made you. God loves you. And He always will. He wants you to love yourself too. Not just yourself, but others as yourself. How has He shown you His love this week?
How have you loved yourself this week?
How have you loved your neighbor this week?
Keep it up and don’t get down. Especially on yourself.
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