"Celebrate all our differences
Instead of building these lasting fences
What's in your heart matters most of all..."
(Second Last Verse in CeCe Winans song Colorful World)
I have been persecuted often for my differences...
We all at some point in our lives come across these people, the self proclaimed judges of others....
And it is almost guaranteed that we just won't encounter them once, but throughout our lives however long the Lord makes them, these types of people are around every corner, in every Mommy and Me Group, on the Soccer Field, and even in your Church.....
So what to we do?
Do we try to change to get the approval from these self proclaimed judges?
Or to we embrace what sets us apart and makes us different?
I opt for embracing what sets me apart!
What does this mean? I mean in terms of those judges still being out there?
Well, I am not saying I am holier than thou and it will never bother me when those judges make there judgments, but atleast I know who I am, what I am about, and most importantly that I stand for something, and that the Lord God made me with the intent to set me apart, as he did with all of us....
I am not saying he made us all to be alone forever in isolation never to interact etc, I am saying he made us in his image and unique and thus we all act as components in the body of Christ!
If you think for a minute of a body in actual physical form, the arm is not like the leg, nor the brain like the foot, they are different but all have different functions and capabilities....
I say the same for us, we all function differently but we all form the body of Christ.......
God only wants us to love one another in spite of those differences and because of those differences he focuses on what is in our hearts, and where we are with him he accepts us 100% no conditions etc, and he wants us to do the same...
Alot of the time people are bogged down by their differences, refusing to let their differences shine, refusing to allow their uniqueness to be shown, often they are embarrassed by it all, instead they act the way people expect them to act, and by those people I mean those self proclaimed judges...
So they walk around robots, afraid of letting their true selves show.......
God wants us to tear down those fences that our own fears build up around us....
There is so much pressure put on people these days, lies from the enemy that we could not possibly be good enough by just being ourselves.....
Many of us struggle, but many of us to break free!
Today I am going to Celebrate my Differences, how about you?
We all at some point in our lives come across these people, the self proclaimed judges of others....
And it is almost guaranteed that we just won't encounter them once, but throughout our lives however long the Lord makes them, these types of people are around every corner, in every Mommy and Me Group, on the Soccer Field, and even in your Church.....
So what to we do?
Do we try to change to get the approval from these self proclaimed judges?
Or to we embrace what sets us apart and makes us different?
I opt for embracing what sets me apart!
What does this mean? I mean in terms of those judges still being out there?
Well, I am not saying I am holier than thou and it will never bother me when those judges make there judgments, but atleast I know who I am, what I am about, and most importantly that I stand for something, and that the Lord God made me with the intent to set me apart, as he did with all of us....
I am not saying he made us all to be alone forever in isolation never to interact etc, I am saying he made us in his image and unique and thus we all act as components in the body of Christ!
If you think for a minute of a body in actual physical form, the arm is not like the leg, nor the brain like the foot, they are different but all have different functions and capabilities....
I say the same for us, we all function differently but we all form the body of Christ.......
God only wants us to love one another in spite of those differences and because of those differences he focuses on what is in our hearts, and where we are with him he accepts us 100% no conditions etc, and he wants us to do the same...
Alot of the time people are bogged down by their differences, refusing to let their differences shine, refusing to allow their uniqueness to be shown, often they are embarrassed by it all, instead they act the way people expect them to act, and by those people I mean those self proclaimed judges...
So they walk around robots, afraid of letting their true selves show.......
God wants us to tear down those fences that our own fears build up around us....
There is so much pressure put on people these days, lies from the enemy that we could not possibly be good enough by just being ourselves.....
Many of us struggle, but many of us to break free!
Today I am going to Celebrate my Differences, how about you?
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I love the way you are :)
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