Podcast Episode 197 - Five Tips to Live Your Divine Life - Tip Two - Love You
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Do you want to live your divine life of significance yet feel like you’re not enough?
Have you ever given grace and love to someone else when they made a mistake but beat yourself up when you did the same thing?
How do you talk to yourself? Would you say the same things to a best friend?
We’re continuing our series on living our divine life. Yesterday, you learned how to do something new. It’s time to work through the obstacles keeping you in your comfort zone. Today, I’m sharing a key that will fuel your divine life and help you enjoy your life more as you pursue your divine life.
Today is for you if…
If you invest in and love others, but it’s a challenge to give that same love to yourself because of all your flaws.
If you need fuel to live your life of significance but aren’t sure what might be missing.
If you’re ready to start enjoying being with the one person you’re with more than anyone–YOU.
The divine life is where you’re not hiding anything and showing up fully in your beautiful imperfectness with your gifts and talents. And then you’re fulfilling your God-given purpose using those gifts and talents to make this world a better place.
But we must do new things to pursue our divine life. So tip one, we had a special guest Grace Bunch to help us learn how to try new things. What better person to show us that than a seven-year-old child? As kids, we constantly did new things, eating, crawling, walking, school, reading, writing, and making new friends every school year.
As adults, it’s easy to back off and become scared to do new things. Remember, as Grace shared, it’s up to you whether doing something new has to be scary. Doing something new doesn’t have to be scary. You get to choose your perspective.
Let’s get to tip two to Live Your Divine Life…
Love You.
Loving you is the fuel that keeps you moving forward. It’s the fuel that allows you to enjoy where you’re at on the way to where you’re going. This power helps you let go of the need for perfection and love yourself in all your imperfections.
Do you naturally love others and give them grace, yet, struggle too you love yourself?
Courage is loving yourself as much as you love others.
Mark 12:31a NIV
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus is implying you love yourself to love your neighbor. If we don’t love ourselves, can we fully love others well?
“You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” –Mr. Rogers
But what if it’s easy for you to love others, and you struggle to love yourself?
Just strike that verse and reverse it.
Think, “love yourself like you love your neighbor.”
Why are you and I challenged to love ourselves well?
Shame
Old stories
Outside voices
My old story said that my voice doesn’t matter. What I was really saying was my voice doesn’t matter as much as someone else. So I found it easier to love others, listen to others, care for others or value others more than myself. I’m not more significant than someone else, but I matter just as much. So do you.
Two things to remember to love yourself:
1. Father loves you so much that He gave Jesus.
You’re worth the price of Jesus!
2. Love yourself like you would love a friend or your child.
Consider how you treat a friend or child and give yourself that same love and grace.
That includes how you talk to yourself. Words in your head count as talking to yourself too.
If you don’t love yourself, you won’t be able to step into your divine life fully. You’ll pull back anytime you make a mistake, or you’ll never step out in the first place thinking you’re not worthy.
Homework:
Spend 5 minutes journaling why you struggle to love yourself.
Now spend 5 minutes journaling what loving yourself could look like.
What’s one thing you can do today to love yourself? Do that.
I would love to hear how you’re implementing these lessons. Please email me at hello@heatherbunch.com and share! This fuels me and lets me know I’m helping in some way.