Self-esteem is of the Devil!!!

I am writing this to GLORIFY GOD, EDIFY OTHERS and CORRECT MYSELF.
I was talking with my mentor and I mentioned this thread; she agrees that SELF-ESTEEM is of the devil. After I told her what I posted, she told me that what I was talking about was not ESTEEM, but CONFIDENCE. I feel what all the responders to Ramon's OP,INCLUDING MYSELF, have MIS-USED the words SELF-ESTEEM. I am 29, and I was taught all through school that SELF-ESTEEM and SELF-CONFIDENCE were one in the same. After talking with my mentor (who is in her 60's) that even SELF-CONFIDENCE can be bad, truly anything with SELF as the prefix must be examined. When I said "I do not believe one can truly have a good self-esteem without Jesus in there lives..." I MIS-SPOKE the truth is that no one can have "good" SELF-ESTEEM. We SHOULD only have CONFIDENCE, not in ourselves but in what God does in us and through us.

Thanks Ramon and God bless all those who have read and/or replied.

I understand what you are saying.

But I think now we are playing semantics. In word meamnings theres a conotation and denotation. Denotations are the dictionary definition but conotations are just as important as they are the accepteable definition, which can usually be cultural.

I think thats what we are doing with confidence and esteem.

1Jn 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
1Jn 3:19 And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
1Jn 3:20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
1Jn 3:21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
1Jn 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
1Jn 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
1Jn 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

ok can we just change it to SELF GLORIFICATION ramon and have done with it. Everyone will say that its wrong and most are very prideful without realizing it. I fall into the snare more often then I like and only avoid it through the Grace of God who leads and guides my actions so HIS GLORY can be reflected in this world.

blessings to my brothers and sisters in Christ.

ESTEEM comes from the Latin word aestimare, which means; to value, appraise, estimate.
Who are, as people, to place a value on our lives or the things we do?

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Philippians 2:3 (KJV)

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. 1Thess 5:12-13.

In the Bible we are to esteem others, to remain humble and if we are to be esteemed it is not by our hand. This is not semantics. If we esteem ourselves we fool ourselves into thinking we did it all alone, it is a FALSE sense of security.

For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus. And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit. 2 Corinth 1:13-15

And CONFIDENCE should not be in ourselves but in what God does through us.
Anytime we bring "SELF" in to anything we can corrupt what God has planned for us. That is why we must focus on others because God has us and He knows what He wants us to do.

I am thankful that God inspired Ramon to start this post, because I have learned something new.

God Bless.

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