Ok, I admit it, I’m not a writer and I don’t enjoy writing blogs for some reason, but I’m going to give it a try. Hope this touches someone’s life. 🙂
As I was growing up, I felt different. I was always in the back row of group pictures, always chosen last in sports, never won anything, was never popular,always on the side, and never felt pretty. There came a point where I didn’t value life. I had thoughts of suicide when I was 14 years old. I felt like I wasn’t worth anything and had nothing to live for; I felt that no one loved me. I struggled with self identity, and insecurity; always trying to be like my friends or the popular kids. Even when I had people around me, I felt all alone in the world.
When I was 17 years old, one day in my History class, my friend Jessica, invited me to her Church’s Youth Group. I didn’t want to go, but she was so persistent in inviting me that I decided to “get it over with” and never go back again after visiting once. At the moment I stepped into that church, the greeters were so friendly and nice. It was odd to me, because “normal” people around me were never that friendly or nice. As I walked to take a seat, Pastor James came up to me and asked for my name and told me how pretty I looked that day. For the first time in a long time, I could feel love from people that I had never met in my entire life. It felt good. That was the day that I gave my life to the Lord. After that, I would never miss a service for anything! (: My life radically changed. All of a sudden, the love from the Lord that those “strangers” showed me, changed my world. I found out that Jesus loved me and valued me, and that He had and still has a purpose in my life.
All it took was one girl in my history class to talk to me about Jesus and invite me to her church. What if we stepped out to talk to at least one person each day about Jesus? What if we stopped caring what people around us think or say if we pray in public? What if? Changing the world seems to be something everyone dreams of and a few actually do. God Values all people. I think God wants us to get a view of life from His perspective and see the divine everywhere we look and in everyone we meet. We need to see that people are important. Not just the “beautiful people” who can give us a better reputation by being around them or the “powerful people” who can give us a boost in our careers. No, we need to see the lowliest people on the earth from God’s perspective. When we see those people as God sees them, it will change everything we value. When we recognize the divine portrait God is painting all around us, the very nature of our salvation and the priority of His kingdom will shape everything we do. (Isaiah 61)
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the Lord’s favor has come…" Isaiah 61:1-2
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