I want to be the best me I can be! You be you! if I spent time comparing myself to other Christian women, I would feel inferior to so many, perhaps most. I have learned to shut those thoughts off.
All women have a tendency to compare themselves to others. I think it’s more common among women than men. I might be wrong, or maybe it’s because I’ve observed women and girls, and even read about women in the Bible, comparing, copying, coveting and competing. And witnessed the detrimental effects of that practice. So, let’s stop comparing! No one else on earth can be you! God made you you, so you be the best you you can be, and I will aim to be the best me I can be!
No One Else Can Be You!
Be You–You Are A Designer Original!
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God loves you, friend, so very much. God is so good at creating, and designing, isn’t He? He makes no two snowflakes alike. Do you think He takes any less pleasure in creating you one of a kind?! Jesus was so good at making each person know that they were special. He broke down all the stereotypes and walls. He talked to women of ill-repute and tax collectors, and saw them as people. He destroyed those religious notions that kept them, and still try to keep us, trying to live up to a set of rules and a self-established standard of righteousness. A list that if they felt they had checked all the boxes on, then they would be “good enough.”
In other words, setting up our own standard of righteousness is not God’s way. We have to realize that His standard of righteousness is the only one that counts. And Jesus accomplished it for us, because we cannot! Jesus paid it all. Jesus lived a perfect life and was the only one who could! And we cannot.
God Made You An Original! Be You!
I think this is a debated theological idea–whether we can be perfect on this Earth. My view is that we cannot, and that we won’t, be perfect until we see Christ face-to-face. In heaven.
That does not mean that we should not try to rid our lives of sin and live as perfectly as possible. That does not mean that we should not seek righteousness or that we should disregard, or think lightly of, sin!
But it should help us not to look at the person next to us or down the row at church or across the street and try to copy their lives! They’re not perfect. And you will not be achieving God’s will for your life if you copy theirs. Say to yourself, “I want to be me! I want to be the best me that I can be, by God’s grace!”
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Be You And Don’t Listen To Them
It is so common in churches for women to feel that there is a standard–an unwritten law–for how to behave, how to dress, how their children should behave, what activities they should be doing, how many times they should be in church in a week, what acts of serving they should be doing or committees they should be on in the church, and on and on and on. There is an unwritten standard of righteousness in many churches of acceptability for you as a woman of God, that you feel you MUST live up to, or at least you feel you must if you’re going to be accepted in that church!
I want to ask, “Who says?” Don’t you listen to them! You listen to God! And, of course, listen to your husband. God has put your husband in the place of authority in your home and family. And let me tell you one thing that I have learned over many years of being on this earth. No two men are alike! I’m really glad that I only have my husband to submit to. There is no perfect husband. And they all have their own quirks and idiosyncrasies and imperfections. And I’m glad that I have my husband’s to deal with and not your husband’s or anyone else’s. Reverence your own husband, the Bible says.
You Would Not Be Happier As Someone Else–Be You
Don’t think that your life would be perfect if you lived in someone else’s family or had someone else’s husband or someone else’s kids or someone else’s life. (That’s called coveting, and God commands us not to do it.) Don’t try to copy their life or their ministry, or their service to God. They have different gifts than you.
I Want to Be the Best Me I Can Be! You Be You!
God has a different purpose for them than you. Don’t try to be someone else. Please! We need the you that God made to show up and use your gifts and talents in this world. God made you an original!!! You are splendid! Magnificently designed, intricately created, down to the smallest detail. That’s how God is! He is extremely detailed and creative. The Best Designer! Don’t look at yourself and insult God, the Designer, by insulting His design! Be You!
God has a very special place for you in this world. He made you with your gifts and talents and He gave you a story–a testimony of bringing you to Himself and saving you–a testimony of the work that He is doing in your life and your family’s life. He has a ministry for you and your family to do. It’s absolutely one of a kind. Not a replica of someone else’s. There’s an old saying that if you and I are exactly alike, then one of us is not necessary, and that’s so true!
Embrace your uniqueness, friend! You’re amazing!
Study the Word of God and Really Seek to obey it in your life. Passionately desire holiness, righteousness, and to be like Christ. Being like Christ will look different in you than it looks in me and different in me than it looks in someone else (what a radical thing to say!)!
Be you! Be the best you that you can be! And, in so doing, bring glory to God every day of this life that you have been entrusted with.
You are not going to live out Christianity exactly like your husband (radical statement #2). Your children will not be just like you (radical statement #3). They will not look exactly like you, dress like you, like the same things as you, or have the same ministry as you. Be YOU! (And let them be themselves!) But, please be you!
The world needs you to be you! There is so much to be done for Christ, and we need your loveliness, your skills, your talents, your heart, your passions, your unique you-ness that came out of the trials you’ve gone through, the successes and failures you’ve experienced, and all the things you’ve learned from walking with God as you have all this time.
Be yourself!!! Please embrace who you are! Be you! I want to be me. I want to be the best me I can be. You be you! Be the best you that you can be! And, in so doing, bring glory to God every day of this life that you have been entrusted with.
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