Christ Esteem verse self esteem

 Colossians 3:3 "For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.    

....8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander and filthy language from your lips.   9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its creator."

2Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"    Self esteem is and has been a “Hot Topic”.  Our culture seems to promote the idea of having high self esteem to the point of giving everyone a trophy win or loose.  Rewarding sub standard behavior only promotes sub standard behavior.     When we have poor behavior in our minds, hearts and actions our self esteem suffers.   We first hand know all the things we do, we wish we wouldn’t do.  We also know all the things we want to do, that we don’t do.   This plague of the human condition rages constant havoc with our feelings of self worth.    We ALL have a sin problem!   Good News; Jesus takes our sins and removes them as far as the East is from the West and remembers them NO MORE!   In exchange He gives us His righteousness! He gives us His right standing with God.   He gives each of us credit for all of His goodness!!     Yes,  we ALL continue to sin and sin messes with our self worth.   We need not suffer with low self worth because of our sin.  We have been set free by the powerful gift of Jesus!   Give Him all your sins today, ask Him to help you rid yourself of desiring them and doing them.   Accept the forgiveness He died to give you.   And Walk with your chin up knowing you are the righteousness of Jesus Christ!    You are not the sum of your sins or sum of your personal faults. You are the Righteousness of Jesus Christ!!! Put on Christ Esteem today!  Let go of the self esteem, we can never be good enough no matter how hard we try or no matter how many participation trophy’s we own.   We ALL have a sin problem.    Put on Christ esteem, be beaming from the inside and it’ll show up authentically on the outside too!!   People will see this in you and want what you have and you can share the good news of Jesus Chrsit!