To love yourself is to seek self preservation. It is to desire to live-to fully engage and appreciate the life opportunity gracefully given to you by God. To love self is to love the process of growth, development, struggle, community, and the joy in the journey called life that each of us must go through. Self love then is the ultimate expression of one's worship of God. Because self love starts with God who gave you life.
If a person love themselves, they will choose to follow and obey the only true God, the Creator- Yahawah.
Because to worship God is life. When we put our faith in God it leads to wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of God, this world and our purpose in it. The true worship of the Creator, which is to obey his word, causes us to make a distinction between good and evil and to have the wisdom to choose what is good.
It is this understanding that saves us from evils and wickedness that results in death-the opposite of self preservation. It delivers us from following the ways of Cain- a child of the Devil, who loves murder, hate, and lies to gratify his evil desires unto death. Those who know God know that this way is always rewarded with death. Thus, they avoid it. These, instead, love life more than death.
This love of self through obedience to God, also, naturally extends itself into the love of the offshoots of self, which are one's wife, children, and one's nation unto the greater human family. If we love ourselves, we will love our closest self outside our bodies starting with our spouse. They are our complements given to us by a loving God who seeks our wholeness, and the continuation of his greatest creation-Man. And the next extension are children, which are the gifts of God to man for the continuation of our generations, and for the promotion of a godly people on his earth. They represent our hope and joy for the future in every generation till we reach the divine state God has promised to the preserved of humanity who follow him.
With this perspective then, self love as a desire for self perseveration naturally encompass the national family and the greater humanity that descends from the man and his wife, who were created by God. Therefore, we understand that all people are connected by a physical and spiritual DNA that binds us together as one people in Yahawah. Furthermore, to truly love ones family is to want only what's best for them in order for them to live and strive towards the reward of a godly life as one people.
If one follows God, he will love himself and the extensions of himself in the greater community, because God demands it of him. God's laws and commandments promotes and encompass these two concepts of self love, which starts with love of Him unto the love of the people (Mark 12:29,30,31). To obey God is to embrace all that is good and profitable for man to flourish and grow. To forsake God is to choose death over life. And God clearly instructed us to choose life for ourselves and our children( Deut. 30:19).
If one desires to preserve the life given him by God and to enjoy the blessings of life, then choose life. Choose God. Choose to obey and follow Him only( John 10:9,10).
Shalawam,
Zarach
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