The prompt word has been posted for tonight for this edition of Five Minute Friday. It is: Reach.
And now we begin:
I have reached a point in my life where I no longer worry about the opinions others may have of me. When once it used to bother me when I would hear people whispering about me and giving me those up and down looks, now I just take a deep breath in and give it to God. I realize that I am not in control of any one else. I am only in control of myself and my actions. If you haven’t reached this point yet, give it time. As you grow older, things of this sort will not matter as much any more. You won’t sit up at night losing sleep over this like you once did. You won’t try to go out of your way to reach this person, to change their opinion of you, to make things better like before. You will just simply pray for them and hand it all to God to work out. It used to bug me when someone didn’t like me before. I wanted everyone to like me. The reality of it is that not every one will. I like me and God likes me, and that, my dear friends, is enough!
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What an encouragement! 😉 And such a blessing that you’ve reached such a point of maturity in your own life and thinking .. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much, Kate! I am thrilled to have you visiting MY virtual house now! 🙂 What a nice surprise!
It took a few years into my own growing-up to start caring what others thought… and while I wish I had stayed a blissful fourteen year-old, without a care about others opinions, this time is good. It reminds me to turn desperately to Him. He IS all I need.
Absolutely, Hannah.
As I was reading your post I couldn’t help but think of Taylor Swift’s new song “Shake it Off!” Although I may no agree with all the lyrics, she and you both have good points about not letting other people’s opinions of us get to us. God is the judge and He is one of grace. What a great reminder! Happy to be your FMF neighbor today!
Aww, Asheritah! Thank you so much for what you said. I haven’t yet heard the new Taylor Swift song, but I am going to search for it now!
How wonderful to have reached that point! Truly the only opinion that matters is God’s. Thank you for the reminder tonight.
Thank you for visiting with us! I think it is a message that a lot of people needed to see. We get so caught up in the opinion of others when we should truly only care about what God thinks of us. And you know what? He LOVES us, each and every one of us!