Editorial January 29, 1944 Issue

How We Esteem Ourselves

Evelyn F. Heywood

Self-esteem is essential to worthy achievement but it must be founded not on human judgment, one's own or another's, but on the estimation of man as God's likeness.

As I hear, I judge," said Jesus, "and my judgment is just." How, indeed, could it be otherwise, since it was the result of his communion with the divine? Another statement of his in this connection is given for our guidance: "I receive not testimony from man." Do we receive testimony from men, and, listening not to Spirit, but to personal viewpoints, form our own judgments thereby?

Mankind esteemed Jesus as "stricken, smitten of God." Jesus knew himself as "beloved Son." Had he accepted the verdict of the world regarding him, there would have been no Saviour; the spiritual power of healing, and redemption, would not have been experienced; the crucifixion would not have been followed by the resurrection; the triumph of Life over death would not have been witnessed and the way revealed.

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