Loving self is right

The second greatest commandment reads "Love your neighbor as yourself". Jesus seemed to assume loving oneself is so basic that he does not even have to command us to do so. How do we love our neighbor if we do not even know how to take care of ourselves? Therefore, loving oneself is not wrong, it is natural and healthy. More importantly, it is the right thing to do.

To me, loving ourselves is

• Eat healthy food and exercise regularly to maintain our physical health
• Prioritize our life, our resource, and select our activities wisely. There is time for everything, a time to say YES and a time to say NO.
• Purify our minds, hearts and motives to grow our relationship with God
• Don't intentionally sin against God for temporary pleasure. We don't love ourselves enough as we allow temporary things to master us and damage our relationship with our eternal God.
• Feed and enrich our mind with spiritual nourishment, knowledge & understanding
• Don't be unnecessary burdened by things of the world. Cast away our burdens to God and let him do life with us. He would not ask us to do something that his grace can't reach us. Matt 11:28-30
• Don't look down on ourselves and feel low self-esteem. We are all unique and equally loved by God.