God's View:
John 14:21-23 -Through
Jesus Christ our human spirit is in union with theSpirit of God.
Jesus is the mediator between God and man. He reveals the Father,
unites us with the Father, and comes with Father to make His home
with us. Jesus' life radiates throughout our soul-that is, our
memories, feelings, willings, the intuitive and imaginative faculties,
even to our sensory and physical being. His Light encounters the
dark places of unforgiveness and woundedness within us, healing
then can take place.
Hope:
Rom. 8:1-2 -Our
true center is Christ, and we are to operate from the law of of
the Spirit of Life, no longer living our lives from a guilt and
shame ridden past in which we hated or were hated by others resulting
in self pity, sense of inferiority, failure to accept self or
others. We are to acknowledge this self full of hatred and begin
to deal with it God's way. Confess and repent before Christ, this
opens the heart to receive healing from the One Who redeems.
2Cor. 5:17 , 21 -Self hatred is usually hidden deep in the heart through repeated acts of being violated, and our subjective focus on our own means to deal with the evil without reference to God. This is idolatry, trying to deal with sins through one's own feelings. But Christ took your sin on the cross, give it to Him, . Now be free, in Christ you were made good with the goodness of God. Your self acceptance must be grounded in the awareness that God accepts you in Christ. Thus keep your eye focused on the Source of your salvation, not on your 'diseased'habitual attitudes formed over the years.
Rom. 8:12-13 -No need to live from the lower self, obeying its drives but by an act of your will acknowledge your need for emotional healing. Deal simply with inner insecurities and self hatred and gain a secure identity in Christ. You are justified in Jesus, learn to Practice the Presence of Christ. Choosing to think this way, healing follows.
Change:
Matt. 16:24-26 ;
Gal. 5:18 ;
Rom. 6:6 -We
must differentiate between the self that works with the principle
of evil and selfishness, and the self that abides in Christ and
colloborates with Him. That is the true self, the justified new
creation, that soul that is saved and lives eternally.
Isa. 61:10 ; Gal. 5:18 -Only with the full acceptance of this new self can we find our true center, the place of quiet strength and solid being, that center from which we know and see ourselves to be white-robed in the very righteousness of Christ Himself.
Matt. 5:23-24 ; 6:14-15 -Failure
to forgive others and or to receive forgiveness for ourselves
are great blocks of wholeness in Christ. This results in a judgmental
spirit that is harsh and demanding on self and others, a strong
perfectionist attitude demanding the impossible from self and
others, a fear of future events, a sense of aloneness and abandonment
in times of decision, and a preoccupation with one's own guilt,
and a compulsion to compete for position and success. By forgiving
and being and acting forgiven, these diseased attitudinal patterns
will gradually heal.
Holy Father, I thank You that I am reconciled to You through the death of Your Son, and that through faith in Him as my Saviour from sin, my heart is not only washed clean from my own sin, but it can be delivered from its grievous reactions to the sins and shortcomings of others around and against it. Because of Your Son, Father, I can look straight up to You and dare to let all these feelings surface, and I do so now, knowing that Christ is ready to take them and give me in exchange His Life and Your perspective on myself and others. Accept my thanksgiving, O God our Father. I thank You for Christ who has redeemed me from sin and death and who is even now pouring His eternal life into me.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, in whom I am to abide, to fully live, move and have my being(my true and new self), I direct my thanksgiving to You. I bow before You as Lord of my life, and I thank
You, Precious Holy One, crucified for me, that Your blood justifies me, that in oneness with You, Your goodness is mine.
Holy Spirit, Thou who dost so constantly and faithfully mediate to us the love of both Father and Son, I thank You now for the grace to receive all that is mine as a child of God. Empower me now as I renounce the sin of self-hatred and as I move toward the goal of wholly accepting my true identity as a child of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Well you know, O Lord, that I have been unable to appropriate Your holiness and righteousness as I wish; I have been unable to practice Your Presence because my feelings about myself are so diseased. I have
looked to You, just now, as my dying Saviour, taking into Yourself my sin and darkness, my diseased feelings about You, others, myself. I thank You that you have done this and that in time even my feeling self will reflect this. Heretofore, Lord, I have taken my eyes from You and from the objective truth and have descended into and lived out of my unhealed feeling self. This, with Your help, Lord, I will cease doing, and I will note the very moment I am 'living out of 'that subjective, hurting place and will look straight up to You for the healing word You are always sending. I confess to You the sin of pride that is bound up in my self-hatred. I thank You for Your forgiveness and for the full release from it.
Now, Lord, in Your Name and with the grace You shower upon me,
I renounce the sin of self-hatred.