I’ve grown a bit cynical about the Self Assessment questionnaires all as I’ve grown older. I’ve just celebrated my 58th birthday and I feel I am a lot more, thankfully, than all of these. Faith in Christ and an understanding of his huge love for me has helped me to serve out of a sense of knowing who I am in him and not because I don’t think I am worth anymore than just to be a servant. This is crucial for my self- esteem which has a tendency to plummet at times of stress or failure to achieve. I am learning to anchor my sense of worth in God’s opinion of me and not mine or anyone else’s. I don’t always get this right but things are improving.
The questionnaires are good, however, for gaining an understanding of my God given gifts and natural strengths as a person and I try to work in those strengths as much as possible.
