What is a perfect self-image?

Who I am, who people think I am, what I think people say I am and who I really am must be in sync. For only authenticity leads to harmony to wholeness. For what purpose?

Jesus says we have to love God, and loving God means to love who and what He has created; ourselves and others. If who we think we are is determined by earthly humans and earthly things like money, exam grades, etc, which are unpredictable, how we view ourselves is relative and based on how these earthly things make us feel. But if who we think we are is grounded upon the fact that God loves us as we are despite of how we are, we will be unwavering in the way we view ourselves because God’s love is constant, unchanging and unfailing. He loves us when we are fat, unattractive, unhealthy and sinful. This security in our identity in Christ as His beloved child helps us grow gradually into emotionally healthy and resilient adults. We love like how God loves us, not as the world loves us. We live in authenticity which leads to harmony to wholeness, but for what purpose?

Jesus prayed for his disciples in John 17 verse 21 saying: “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one-as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. I have given them the glory you gave me so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.”

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