Consider the second way to test the idea of self-esteem: take Jesus as a test case. Did He have high self-esteem?
When called “Good Master,” He protested: “Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:17).
What does it mean for us that the most righteous person who lived on this Earth deflected all praise to His Father? “Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise” (John 5:19).