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Roots of Low Self-Worth 0:00 Hi. This is June Hunt from Hope for the Heart. Do you know what it's like to struggle with feelings of low self worth? If so, I understand.0:12 In my heart of hearts, I believed I had little value. Regardless of how I appeared, I felt insignificant. While I did grow up with a0:23 fictitious last name, which was bizarre, My view of myself was primarily based on continual, non affirming actions by0:35 1 person who negatively impacted my life. Looking back on my growing up years, I see how my father shaped my reality.0:47 I never remember sitting on my father's lap. I never felt special to him. I never heard, you did well. I never heard I love you. In0:59 truth, he never talked with me. He simply wasn't interested. At dinner time, dad enforced the old adage, children are to be1:11 seen, not heard. He announced that we 4 children couldn't speak unless we had something of interest to say to everyone. Of course, he wasn't interested in1:22 anything we had to say, So we rarely spoke. His continual verbal and emotional abuse toward my mother wounded my spirit. His put downs1:34 and painful accusations pierced my heart because my mother was the dearest person in my life. Then 1 day, after coming home from high school,1:46 I thought, I'm not really showing any interest in him. I'm just focusing on his faults and how he hurts us. But instead of being bitter,1:58 I'm going to be kind and focus attention on him. I had become a new Christian. That was the change within me. Well, dad always drove2:10 home at 5 50 PM and expected to have dinner at 6 PM sharp. That day, when I heard him walk through the side entrance of our home,2:23 I was ready, primed with my positive greeting. Although he never asked about my day, I would break the ice and ask about his day. Inside the2:35 narrow hallway, I approached him with a sincere smile. Hi, dad. How was your day? He exploded. He screamed these exact2:47 words. Don't ever ask me that question. That's a stupid question. Never ask me that again. Blown away.2:59 I felt plastered against the wall like a raw egg thrown full force, with hurt and humiliation oozing down the wall. He had just used a stun3:10 gun on my heart. Even today, I can still remember the heat of his volcanic reaction on my cheeks. This 13:22 demoralizing encounter is so minor compared to other incidents of major abuse. Yet decades later, I still remember his harshness,3:34 his hurtfulness as though it were yesterday. In truth, verbal explosions can be as emotionally paralyzing as other types of3:46 abuse. And, by the way, never again did I ask dad about his day. It's painful to feel like a nonperson, to feel insignificant,3:58 to feel invisible, Yet the lord sees all, including our skewed view of ourselves, and he cares. How comforting to4:10 know that, quote, the lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. That's Psalm 34 18.4:23 It helps knowing that the lord draws close to us in times of harm. When our hearts are hurt, when we feel crushed, he sees, and he4:34 cares. Even today, if I periodically have difficulty feeling god's love because my emotions can get stuck. I know4:46 he loves me. I know I have worth in his eyes, just as everyone on Earth does. A key to overcoming my struggle withHealing Through God's Love 4:58 low self worth has been to change my focus from my painful experience with my earthly father to experience the perfect love of my heavenly5:10 father, to change my focus from my insecure family background to the security of knowing I'm forever in the family of god, to5:22 change my focus from my personal failure to the 1 who looks beyond my fault and calls me friend. How vital to know what god says5:33 about you is true. You are so significant. Listen to this. God chose to create you. As the old saying goes, god don't make5:45 no junk. Well, Genesis 1 27 says, god created man, meaning all humanity, in his own image.5:57 So he not only created you, God has a plan for your life. He says, I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you, not to harm you. Plans to6:09 give you hope and a future. That's Jeremiah 29 11. And god loves you and will never stop loving you. Listen to this6:21 verse in the bible. The lord says, I have loved you with an everlasting love. That's Jeremiah 31 3. We don't have to6:33 wonder about our self worth when we realize our god given worth, when we see our god given value, when we see ourselves through6:45 god's eyes.6:48 This devotional is a sample of June Hunt's book, Letters from June, Stories of Hope on 40 Real Life Issues. You can order your copy today at hope for the heart dot org slash June, or text the6:59 word June to 7 0 9 1 9 to learn more.In this video 0:00 Roots of Low Self-Worth4:56 Healing Through God's Love114K followers
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