I Know They Talk about Me

The overwhelming concern for what people will do and what they say not only will cause God to reject us from our given assignments but will also cause us to reject self confidence, self identity, and joy from our lives.

There are those who care just enough about the right things at the right times and go through life a lot easier and care free than the latter. Certain things said about them aren’t as easily forsaken as those in the first group discussed. There is a care of what people talk about concerning them, but it’s not to the point where they lose sight of who they are or what they are to do. They care to the extent that they will strive to make themselves better people based on the validity of the negative things said about them. Yet they are capable of brushing off some things said about them that aren’t true and have been derived from the lips of those with a malicious spirit. The good things said about them don’t go to their head and spawn a prideful attitude. These types of people are more readily usable as opposed to those types in the first group discussed.

It must always be kept at the forefront of our minds that we are Christians, therefore Christ-like. If Jesus was hated without a cause surely he was thought about and talked about in a hateful manner. On the other hand, he was and is also loved, therefore talked about in a loving manner. Jesus can’t (and didn’t) please everyone because people are going to think, say, and do what it is they are going to think, say, and do. It’s called free will. God doesn’t control our free will so we surely can’t control other people’s free will to think how they want to and say what they want to. So if Jesus is talked about, who are we not to be talked about? Let them talk, but love them. Let them hate, but pray for them. “...If God be for us, who can be against us?”