Strengths and Weaknesses
I am constantly amazed by the number of people (myself included) that have a negative view of themselves when others around them can clearly see the strengths that they have. Our capacity to overlook our own strengths and focus on our perceived weaknesses seems to be never ending.
Is it because we just assume that our strengths are average and thus our weaknesses dominate or is it because we have a personal bias towards the negative? How can we have a better appreciation of ourselves?
God’s view of us is positive. He made us a perfect creation and died on the cross to restore us from our fallen state to that perfect state once again so somehow we need to get more of God’s view of us than our negative perceptions.
The opposite is also true, thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to but I don’t see that failing as much.
