June 6, 2014
How many of us celebrated ourselves yesterday? How
often do you truly celebrate who you are? Many of us, myself inclusive, spend
most of our time and energy focused on what we think is “wrong” with us, as a
result celebrating ourselves becomes a difficult task. Most people I know have
some latest versions of “I am not just good enough” that they play every day of
their life. For some other set of people, self-appreciation and self-love is
often easier said than done.
In Luke 19, a certain man named Zacchaeus was said
to be a chief among publicans and very rich but was short in stature. He heard
that Jesus was passing through Jericho and he desired to see the Master but his
height was a disadvantage because the crowd was so much. He could have gone
back home crying and sobbing that he was incomplete, instead, Bible says in
verse 4 that, “And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see
him: for he was to pass that way.”
Zacchaeus was at that point happy that he was a man
of small stature because that made it quite easy for him to run through the crowd.
As a matter of fact, spaces between the tall guys’ legs became a walking space
for Zacchaeus. In the end, the scripture did not record whether Jesus ate in
another person’s house except in the short rich man’s house who celebrated who
he was. I have come to discover that people who embrace their personality and celebrate
themselves are far more creative than those who keep beating themselves up for
what they are not.
Also, until you truly celebrate and love your makeup,
you can never celebrate and love others. Bible says, love thy neighbor as
thyself – it starts with you because what you don’t have, you cannot give.
Assignment - write a love letter to yourself on the
topic, “What I love about you.”
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