Do You Hate Yourself?

“If any man come to me, and hate not…his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26

One of the worst and most dangerous things I have ever been taught, which I was taught decades ago courtesy of the American world of psychology, is I should love myself. I was taught I “hated myself” and needed to learn to “love myself” when in fact I was despicably, sinfully, undeniably consumed with self. I was utterly broken thanks to others’ sins and most assuredly my own, could barely function d...