Whoa wait a minute Suzie didn't your last entry say just the opposite?
My last entry focused more on not being fake. Not putting on a show.
Today I want to get you thinking on what John 3:30 means
"He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less."
What about "2 Corinthians 5:17
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"
Those are just 2 scriptures that remind us to not be us. But to be like Christ.
We are naturally sinful, broken, selfish people. We need to seek to be like Christ instead of just being ourselves.
How many cards or signatures in a year book have you seen
written: " You are awesome! Never change"
What a crazy thing to say! "Never change?!" Who would never
want to change?
Only someone perfect would want to stay the same.
Don't use excuses for yourself or others "well thats just they way I am"
There are some things I can't control. Like my learning disability, my poor eyesight etc.
There are other things I can control, how I treat people, where I spend my money, how honest I am etc.
But if you know me at any depth you will know that I'm a fallen creature just as you are. Anything good that is in me is Christ. I don't want to be just me. I'm not okay with just being me. I want to be like Jesus.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Who are you?
So many go through life trying to be someone else to please someone else.
How many girls pretend to enjoy sports or a certain team because the boy the like is into it?
How many boys end up hurting themselves as they try to do some amazing stunt that they don't really want to do... just to impress a girl?
How many people pretend to enjoy certain types of music, television shows, or video games so they can fit in with the crowd?
What a miserable life to live.. one of pretending...
I was a bit of a tomboy growing up.. I enjoyed getting messy outside, climbing trees, catching frogs and snakes and turtles.
As I got older I became the person who didn't want or need doors opened for me I could do it myself. I didn't need anyone to take care of me I could handle myself. I wasn't afraid of going to the store in the middle of the night in a dangerous part of the city. I always volunteered to help carry things and move large things. (I was physically stronger back in the day than I am now) I didn't see it at the time but it was a form of pretending on my part.
I thought it was something to be proud of that I was tough and not super girly. But what I've learned as I've matured and grown closer to God in the process is God created me to be a woman and he specifically made men and women differently.
I can still enjoy outdoors and my frogs and snakes. But if someone is going to open a door for me I now let them. There's a reason God made women so complex and relational. We too are created in His image and we showcase different aspects of God. Instead of trying to be as tough as any guy or extremely independent. I should just be me. God created us to live in community so trying to be independent and doing it myself isn't how God created us.
Ladies don't be afraid to be feminine, in the Biblical sense of the word. These are the happiest, most fulfilled ladies on the earth.
Feminine doesn't mean putting a dress on and sipping tea. You can be feminine as you ride your quad around in the mud or sit sewing a dress. Being Feminine is much more than our likes and our tastes its our core being.
Some direction from scripture to us ladies.
Titus 2:3-5
Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They must not slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead, they should teach others what is good. 4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.
Now I could start writing about how men don't need to fear that loving their families or being a Godly man will make them less masculine. But I'm going to wrap this post up.
I'm so thankful that I don't have to pretend with my husband or my friends. I can be who I am and they accept me faults and all. I pray that we all can live in the freedom of who God made us to be. That we don't have to act tough.. or act at all.
In order to know who you are. You must know who created you, and know your purpose in life. Those answers are not difficult to find once you start searching.
How many girls pretend to enjoy sports or a certain team because the boy the like is into it?
How many boys end up hurting themselves as they try to do some amazing stunt that they don't really want to do... just to impress a girl?
How many people pretend to enjoy certain types of music, television shows, or video games so they can fit in with the crowd?
What a miserable life to live.. one of pretending...
I was a bit of a tomboy growing up.. I enjoyed getting messy outside, climbing trees, catching frogs and snakes and turtles.
As I got older I became the person who didn't want or need doors opened for me I could do it myself. I didn't need anyone to take care of me I could handle myself. I wasn't afraid of going to the store in the middle of the night in a dangerous part of the city. I always volunteered to help carry things and move large things. (I was physically stronger back in the day than I am now) I didn't see it at the time but it was a form of pretending on my part.
I thought it was something to be proud of that I was tough and not super girly. But what I've learned as I've matured and grown closer to God in the process is God created me to be a woman and he specifically made men and women differently.
I can still enjoy outdoors and my frogs and snakes. But if someone is going to open a door for me I now let them. There's a reason God made women so complex and relational. We too are created in His image and we showcase different aspects of God. Instead of trying to be as tough as any guy or extremely independent. I should just be me. God created us to live in community so trying to be independent and doing it myself isn't how God created us.
Ladies don't be afraid to be feminine, in the Biblical sense of the word. These are the happiest, most fulfilled ladies on the earth.
Feminine doesn't mean putting a dress on and sipping tea. You can be feminine as you ride your quad around in the mud or sit sewing a dress. Being Feminine is much more than our likes and our tastes its our core being.
Some direction from scripture to us ladies.
Titus 2:3-5
Similarly, teach the older women to live in a way that honors God. They must not slander others or be heavy drinkers. Instead, they should teach others what is good. 4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.
Now I could start writing about how men don't need to fear that loving their families or being a Godly man will make them less masculine. But I'm going to wrap this post up.
I'm so thankful that I don't have to pretend with my husband or my friends. I can be who I am and they accept me faults and all. I pray that we all can live in the freedom of who God made us to be. That we don't have to act tough.. or act at all.
In order to know who you are. You must know who created you, and know your purpose in life. Those answers are not difficult to find once you start searching.
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