Don't forget who you are. If you're a Christian, then you've received a new identity. That identity is found in and made complete in Christ. When God sees you, if you're a Christian, then He effectively sees Christ. You've been given Christ's goodness, wholeness, awesomeness, purity, holiness, status. You're no longer defined by your old self, but by Christ.
Isn't that amazing!?
But, if the Father sees us as the co-heirs of His beloved Son, King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Romans 8), why do we keep judging ourselves by other people's standards and opinions of us? Why are we so bothered about how people think we look? Or how skilled they think we are? Or intelligent? Or witty? Or whatever it is?
If the God of all existence has defined us as in Christ, then who are we to say otherwise? Why do we put the opinions of others above the opinion of God?
Let's do two things more:
1) Be humble, and so stop thinking so much about ourselves. There is great freedom in this. If anyone says anything you like, thank them and move on, and if they say anything you don't, turn the other cheek and proceed to number 2.
2) Remember that before God you were hopeless, lost and dead in your sins, but that now, because of God's grace and not by works (Ephesians 2), you're identity is now in Christ. You are a beloved child of God, with whom He is well pleased (Matthew 3). Give thanks to God, and move on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-WuFAlQlY
(Yes, this is the third time I've linked to that video.)
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