In life people will judge you, marginalize you, and downright think very little of you sometimes. Many people do this for many different reasons but the most common one is to simply hold some leverage over you and be able to look down on you and downgrade their opinion of you. If you show sentiment people can downgrade you as being weak and downgrade your strengths. Express emotion and people will downgrade you as unstable, or even go as far as to say that you need therapy. Unless you’re able to fuck every girl you see every other week, your manhood comes into question and you’re downgraded as a faggot. If a woman pursues a guy she’s downgraded as desperate. If you are at peace with the station that you have found in life you can be labeled a coward, for lacking the courage to take on bigger challenges. If you take on bigger challenges people can call you ungrateful of what you have, and dismiss you as a greedy person. I can go on, but the overall point is that people will label and downgrade you. It’s not a matter of you letting them or not letting them, it’s a matter of whether or not you wear the label that they throw in front of you.
Know who you are in the eyes of God and nobody will EVER EVER be able to downgrade you to anything less than what God created. You are the most beautiful of Gods creations. God provides the Sun and the rest of the stars, the ocean and the rain, the food that we grow and the flowers that bloom, but far more beautiful than any of those creations is the one that you see in the mirror.
To say that God loves you is commonly heard and said. And although this is true, it is by no means an invitation or motivation to say to yourself or those around you, “Well I don’t give a shit what you think about me, or anybody thinks about me, because God loves me and that’s all that matters.” Yes, God does love you. But love cannot be used as a tool or privilege to marginalize or downgrade anybody’s thoughts. Because then you are doing the very thing that you didn’t want people doing to you.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres “ 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
It is in the realization that God loves you, and that he has never created anything as beautiful as you, will never duplicate you, will never forget you, will never abandon you, will never love you less, will never sideline you, will never downgrade you, that you will find purpose and perspective in life . And it is in that purpose and perspective that you will find confidence, Joy, and compassion for others. And it is in that confidence, Joy, and compassion that you will find strength. And it is in that strength that any negative labels that others may want to pin on you will not stick to you as far as you are concerned. And while any and all opinions of you can be respected as much as all of God’s creatures should be respected, nobody knows you as clearly and perfectly as God does, he knows your past in detail, as well as your future, he knows your past going back generations as well as your future, through the moments you take your last breath on earth. And it is in knowing this truth that nobody will ever make you feel less than what you know you are. And when you ask yourself that question, "Who am I?" you will be able to answer your self, who you truly are. God most beautiful creation.
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