Yesterday I felt the Holy Spirit speaking into our responsibility to see one another in the right way, and I think today is just a continuation of that message.
We are individually unique in that we all bring something that is ours alone to the table of this life. We may be similar in ways to our family, our peers, and those that we wish to emulate, but truthfully we are who we are when everyone has gone away. When we are left with just us, we need to like the person that is left behind. Once again we are not doing this for worldly satisfaction, but we are doing it for us. After the party is over and all the guests have gone home, the person we see in the mirror is who we are left with. I know this is a good thing. God calls us to be our very best, and not our very best because another person’s light is reflecting on us.
Basically, it is very simple. We will be happier in this life if we embrace who we have become, and not try to be someone we are not. Our success is ours alone, and our failures can be painful, but they belong to us, too. It is hard to learn from someone else and make it truly personally. However, we can be inspired by the walk of those that have come out of situations that were difficult and we can be fully compassionate, but at the end of the day they still don’t belong to us.
Galatians 2:10 ESV For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for the good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.