thank you
one of the hardest things has to be guarding our hearts - we are told to do so but we don't like to think it might even mean with other believers but in the end we find that out - and yet still have, as you say, a soft heart and a desire to grow and understand and everything else
you mention balance and sometimes it feels like a 'balancing act'
I want to move past that and just not worry about how others think or feel about me as long as I can go before God honestly and He can assure me I did my best and it's ok
one of the hardest things has to be guarding our hearts - we are told to do so but we don't like to think it might even mean with other believers but in the end we find that out - and yet still have, as you say, a soft heart and a desire to grow and understand and everything else
you mention balance and sometimes it feels like a 'balancing act'
I want to move past that and just not worry about how others think or feel about me as long as I can go before God honestly and He can assure me I did my best and it's ok
You know...
you make a good point. I want to be people loving not people pleasing, one is self serving the other selfless. The fixing mentality that sometimes leads me also points to self, not to Him. I recently pondered this...am I caring about how I am perceived because they are questioning the sincerity of my heart, of my character, or it is unsettling to me that ppl question the Jesus in me?
Hahaha...see how I justified my defensive reaction to a point of saying my response is noble because I am being loyal and standing up for my Lord and Savior?
Anyway, my conclusion, thus far, is this...
Stop it old woman, lol!!!! Defining who I am as a person in the eyes of others, or who I think others are in my eyes, is futile and a waste of time. Who we are, starts and ends with who we are as a children of His, PERIOD!!!
What makes anyone an awesome person is directly proportional to the One dwelling within them.
Just a closer walk with thee,
Grant it Jesus is my plea
But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, so that, just as it is written, " Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord ."
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 NASB
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