Who Cares What They Think? Do What He Tells You To Do!
In my family, most of my sisters could care less what others think about them. For me, it has been a struggle as far back as I remember. Really, though, why should others' opinions matter? I am not saying to be mean and cruel. Maybe why that is why it has been so important for me to examine my actions and words. I could not stand when others around me were hateful or insensitive. Regardless, if anything weighs so heavily in our decision making...it can consume our thinking and shade our judgement. " ...We will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about.... We will not be influenced... with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church." (Eph. 4:14-15 NLT) Truth: God's truth does grow us up in Him, molding us to a heart more like Christ. It is time we speak the truth in love to ourselves about...