FREEDOM FROM YOUR LIMITED SELF-WORTH

JOACHIM OKOROAFOR Ph.DrnACADEMIC LECTURER (GREGORY UNIVERSITY, UTURU, ABIA STATE, NIGERIA)

FREEDOM FROM YOUR LIMITED SELF-WORTH
INTRODUCTION
Who do you think you are? May be that little boy that was born and grew up in that small village that has no place in the map of your town! It is also possible that you think you are the son of that poor, slave, haggard man who cannot feed himself and his family! If possible too, you think you are that poor uneducated boy/girl that couldn’t finish college education!
Yes, that is what you have seen and told that you are! Really, it has entered into your subconscious mind and has formed the beliefs you have been working with all the while! This, I know, has given you the poor image you have about yourself which has thrown you into a psychotic-problem of inferiority complex. This is the prison you have been into; if possible for many decades now! Your limited self-worth has really robbed you of your greatness! By now you should not have only being called ‘Blessed’ but ‘A blessing’! You should have been blessing the world with this your wonderful creative and innovative talents but to no avail!
My question to you is this; do you think that your case is closed and that you will amount to nothing in the world again? No! I know who you are! That your view about yourself is an error that has eaten deep into your subconscious! This has made you to hold this erroneous belief “I am a poor fellow.” Get up; let’s see you from the rational view; from your creator’s intent and intention!
TIPS TO FREEDOM FROM LIMITED SELF-WORTH
Freedom is existence; existence is freedom! To live, is to be free; to be free is to live! Freedom is person; is an evidence that you are a human being! If man’s freedom is endangered by anything, he turns be a beast of burden!……John Stuart Mill.
Are you not aware that freedom is what gives man his headship position in animal kingdom? This headship position made the creator after creating man to say: “Be free and dominate (Genesis 1:26).” God is aware that anytime He tempered with human freedom, man ceases to be man but a beast of burden. Nothing has any authority to come near to your freedom until you fail to have the real version of yourself! Hence, be free from your unlimited beliefs with the following tips:

1. You are the Image of God (Imago Dei)
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God He created them, male and female He created them (Genesis 1:27). God, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary means “the perfect and all powerful being, a being with great strength and knowledge.” This is a vivid image of you! You are created in the likeness of God; meaning you are in the same class with Him. You have the capacity to be anything you want in the world! Everything is possible with you! Every morning you wake up affirm this “I am the image of God; I live in the same class with God; I can do all things!” Continue this affirmation for limitless day and months; your poor self-image will die of and the power of vibrancy and vigor will come up! Hence, you will achieve all you want and become a blessing to humanity.
2. You are called to dominate!
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and dominate, fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground (Genesis 1:28). The words, blessed, be fruitful, multiply, govern and reign indicate that your coming into this planet earth has been programed for dominion. It is a proof that you are a king that is meant to rule the earth. Live in the consciousness of “I am blessed to be fruitful, to multiply, to govern, and to reign on earth.” Let this affirmation be established in your mind and you will see the new version of you!
3. You are a potential beingr
This simply means that you are created with the power of “becoming.” You are created with the capacity to evolve! Each time your new self comes out! What you are yesterday is not you today and you today will not be you tomorrow. For this reason you don’t rate yourself today by what you were yesterday, for you are a mystery of impossibilities. You can do all things through God’s power that is at work in you. “To him who is able by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for or even think of (Ephesians 3:20).
If you can do all things; where did your limited beliefs come from? It came from what I call “environmental virus.” This virus comes as a result of negative influences around you and negative words you hear and accept to be true. Know it today, that you are a man of unlimited possibilities. You are a being of magical powers; who they think you are is not you! Wake up; take you place and continue to reign, for you are called to be a blessing to the whole world.
4. You are created to be free!
Be free so as to act and realize your full potentials! See yourself as free as air! Have the mind-set that nothing can stop you; that everything is possible and that you can become anything you want! Free yourself from religious, traditional and civil laws that try to hold you back from becoming who you are meant to be, for laws are meant to be catalyst that helps in man’s self-realization and not the other way round. It is true that for the society to be at peace there must be laws, but it must not be to the detriment of self-realization. I want you to look into your religious, traditional and civil laws to ascertain whether they are doing its work of self–realization or otherwise. If otherwise, I encourage you to discard them immediately for you have no apology to render than to be your better version and rule your world.

CONCLUSION
You are created with the capacity to evolve! Each time your new self comes out! What you are yesterday is not you today and you today will not be you tomorrow. For this reason you don’t rate yourself today by what you were yesterday, for you are a mystery of impossibilities.