29
Sep '18
Outsiders
29
Sep '18
Have you ever felt like an outsider? I feel like I spent most of my life like an outsider. I’ve always had a family who loves me, but for some reason I just never felt a real outside connection with anyone. Feeling that way led me to some unhealthy choices in my earlier years.
Following Jesus has taught me that my identity isn’t found in other people, it’s found through Him. I don’t have to follow others and try to be something I’m not. Following Jesus I feel loved and I have peace. I definitely don’t feel like an outsider.
With Jesus the door is open to everyone. Whether you’re an outsider or the life of the party, we all have the opportunity to find our identity in Him. He has opened up many doors for me that I would have never had the courage to open myself. I no longer feel like an outsider because I belong to Him.
Philippians 2:1-4 NKJV
Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
1 John 3:1-3 NKJV
Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called Children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
1 Corinthians 10:19-21 NKJV
What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
Have a blessed day!!!!
Rita
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