How does self-respect contribute to our happiness? (2)

The prophet Isaiah and the great leader Joshua add more insights

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Well-being and Righteousness

If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea (Isa. 48:18).

Prosperous and Successful

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success Josh. 1:8).

Searching out all those commandments will lead you into a lifetime study of the Bible. Also, it will guide you into conduct pleasing to God and will contribute to your own self-respect.

That's worth a lifetime of study! Why not commit yourself to a lifetime of doing what is right? Just as people who are physically fit spend a lifetime seeking out fitness principles and following them, so contented people learn the principles that will enable them to build self-respect…to love themselves.

The Bible furnishes us with some broad guidelines to help us make choices, but what it says puts the responsibility for our daily actions squarely on our own shoulders:

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable…I will not be mastered by anything (1 Cor. 6:12).

All things are lawful, but not all things edify (1 Cor. 10:23).

To one who knows the right thing…and does not do it…it is sin (James 4: 17).

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever (Isa. 32: 17).

Insight, Knowledge of Sin, Prosperous, Righteousness, Self-respect, Stumble, Successful, Tears, Testimonies,Understanding,Well-being.-Henry Brandt. Visit him at www.BiblicalCounselingInsight.com