Christian Self-Worth

[FlaviusAetius]

How do Christians not kill themselves with the constant idea being taught that their life and humanity in general is worthless and only holds any value because of God?

Honestly because I'm a worthless waste of life I think I understand what happens. Most Christians can survive being taught their self-worth is nothing because sub-consciously they remind themselves of all the talents and skills they hold. Even when they offer praise to God for all things the fact is that it's the individual themselves responsible for being smarter or stronger or more successful than their fellow man.

Really this is one reason I don't believe I can return to Christianity. I don't have a talent to sub-consciously keep me from wanting to end my life out of worthlessness. My academics are pathetically average, my body easily fatigued and now even at work I've been shown that I'm the worst employee at the grocery store (with the only ones below me being the elderly workers who have that as an excuse)

Is there anything of value in this worthless existence? All I ever feel is misery and failure, I might as well be dead.

 

[Criada]

Brother - Christianity doesn't teach that anyone is worthless!
You are a precious, unique individual created by God for purpose, and loved extravagantly.
Praying that God will show you how much you are worth to him.

 

[FlaviusAetius]

God seems perfectly content to let me live my pointless existence down a path to eternal damnation. He won't care when I'm burning in Hell for all eternity, in fact that's what God wants-everyone who doesn't love Him like a King apparently deserves to suffer eternally in Hell.

Apparently I'm not even free of sin if I have no self-worth either. According to Christianity and humanity if you have no self-worth it's because you're just trying to feed off the pity of others. So apparently I'm just as bad as the most pompous, arrogant and self-assured humans because I'm just an attention harlot. At least prideful people have the advantage of having something they can be prideful of, having no self-worth and being a pity seeker means you're absolutely worthless to society, have no talents and yet still drain people's patience with wallowing in self-pity and searching for empathy.

It's easy for people with natural talents to say God gave everyone a purpose; not so much when a person can't find one good thing about themselves.

I absolutely hate people.

 

[orangeness365]

God loves everyone, but just because he loves everyone doesn't make the love he has for each individual anything less than a lot. All I really hear from your post is that you're humble. Life isn't just about being the best at this or that, it's about loving others and being loved. It's more fun to be the best at something, or have all the worldly satisfactions taken care of, but there are many people that seem to have it all and still aren't happy. Your existence isn't pointless, it's about choosing good over evil. I think everyone wants at least a little attention. Life gets lonely without attention. Hopefully you can learn how to love people someday instead of hate them.

 

[FlaviusAetius]

Thank you for the kindness, but I still feel like a corpse with soul and body rotting from the inside. I'm still an envious worthless person which proves I'm not humble at all. I can't even think of one positive aspect of my personality. Plus I'm completely dependant on other people, might as well consider me more a leech than a human being. Is this all there is to life? Real pain and fake/temporary happiness? I just hate myself so much, I'm sorry for wasting both your kind words on a completely hopeless case like me.

 

[Restoresmysoul]

Thank you for the kindness, but I still feel like a corpse with soul and body rotting from the inside. I'm still an envious worthless person which proves I'm not humble at all. I can't even think of one positive aspect of my personality. Plus I'm completely dependant on other people, might as well consider me more a leech than a human being. Is this all there is to life? Real pain and fake/temporary happiness? I just hate myself so much, I'm sorry for wasting both your kind words on a completely hopeless case like me.

Perhaps humility is in knowing we are not good. And perhaps the envy you see in yourself is the flesh which will not live forever. I see many things in myself which disgust me, but the Lord says that im a new person if i trust in Him, the flesh is the old person i was and it may still live while i am trapped in this "body of death" (as the apostle Paul called it), but one day after i die and leave this world i will have a new body that is not corrupted like this one is. I look forward to that day. This world and everything in it, including my body of flesh, is corrupted but one day i will live in a new world without corruption

 

[ItsMyBeautifulSoul]

Friend, you've fallen for the deceptions of this world. The devil and his accomplices are continuously at work trying to keep us from becoming who God meant us to be. He wants to keep us defeated and at war with ourselves. Fight the devil!! You need to get rid of all the anger, resentment, regret, and condemnation that keep your beautiful soul from forgiving and loving. You must achieve peace and have love for yourself before you could have love and peace with anyone else. Jesus can help you. Forgive yourself and try your very best to find peace. God loved and accepted you before you were in your mother's womb. You are loved and you are not alone.

Do not apologize either. Depression is real and we are all here to help. We've either are depressed, are still healing, or have survived through it. The rest of society deems to stigmatize us depressed ppl. But sometimes you're meant to be an outcast with men, to become an in cast with God. This is all part of your story and you will succeed. Surrender yourself to Christ. Don't give up. Just let Him in.

Here are some verses that may inspire you.
Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

 

[Restoresmysoul]

Feelings are not always trustworthy, so i try to put trust in the Lord because He alone is trustworthy. I feel many things both pleasant and unpleasant, and my mind seems to leap from one thought to another, it worries, fears, rages, becomes sad, weary, and sometimes is happy. If i trusted my fragile mind to save me then i would be lost, but the Lord promises that if i trust in Him then i will be saved. This world and everything in it is temporary and its not trustworthy. Things in this world will surely let us down, people will fail us, our possessions will come and go, even our health will fail. But the Lord will abide forever, he is trustworthy and so we can trust in Him alone.

 

[Restoresmysoul]

Look at David, he tells his own soul to wait silently for God alone. And lamentations 3 is a good scripture as well, it has been a source of strength and inspiration for me over the years and still is. I recommend meditation on these scriptures, they help me.



Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait silently for God alone,
For my expectation is from Him.
6 He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be moved.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory;
The rock of my strength,
And my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in Him at all times, you people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah
9 Surely men of low degree are a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
10 Do not trust in oppression,
Nor vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase,
Do not set your heart on them.
11 God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God.
12 Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy;
For You render to each one according to his work.


lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and roaming,
The wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul still remembers
And sinks within me.
21 This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I hope in Him!”
25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him.
26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.

 

[orangeness365]

Thank you for the kindness, but I still feel like a corpse with soul and body rotting from the inside. I'm still an envious worthless person which proves I'm not humble at all. I can't even think of one positive aspect of my personality. Plus I'm completely dependant on other people, might as well consider me more a leech than a human being. Is this all there is to life? Real pain and fake/temporary happiness? I just hate myself so much, I'm sorry for wasting both your kind words on a completely hopeless case like me.

Maybe you feel like a corpse because you have been cut off from Jesus because you decided to no longer be a Christian, and anyone cut from the vine starts to wither away. But you are still alive, and can be reattached to the vine.
John 15:5
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Envy is a perfectly human emotion. It's important to try to improve yourself by overcoming negative things like envy, but it takes God to take these things away from you, and even so Paul always had the thorn in his side, to keep him from being perfect like Christ. Some people have to live like leeches, or beggars, including children and disabled people, because they can't provide for themselves. Some people just can't provide for themselves, and it's not their fault. I don't see how feeling worthless and envious makes you arrogant, but I guess if you feel that way then I can't change that. I don't deny that this world is filled with pain. I find happiness is also hard to come by, but if you join with Christ again, perhaps you can find joy. I hate myself too, but the self loathing is slowly fading away as I realize that no one but Christ is perfect. Are you really a hopeless case? Do you want to change? My words would only be wasted if you didn't read them.

 

[ToBeBlessed]

God seems perfectly content to let me live my pointless existence down a path to eternal damnation. He won't care when I'm burning in Hell for all eternity, in fact that's what God wants-everyone who doesn't love Him like a King apparently deserves to suffer eternally in Hell.

Apparently I'm not even free of sin if I have no self-worth either. According to Christianity and humanity if you have no self-worth it's because you're just trying to feed off the pity of others. So apparently I'm just as bad as the most pompous, arrogant and self-assured humans because I'm just an attention harlot. At least prideful people have the advantage of having something they can be prideful of, having no self-worth and being a pity seeker means you're absolutely worthless to society, have no talents and yet still drain people's patience with wallowing in self-pity and searching for empathy.

It's easy for people with natural talents to say God gave everyone a purpose; not so much when a person can't find one good thing about themselves.

I absolutely hate people.

Have you ever read the bible? The things that you are saying is not biblical or correct.